John Buchan

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JB began writing and publishing before the end of the nineteenth century and continued through the first forty years of the twentieth. His output was large (especially for a man with a busy professional, non-literary career) and varied: poetry, essays, biography, history, travel writing, political writing, and serious fiction. He is best remembered for his thrillers.

Milestones

26 August 1875

JB , novelist, poet, historian, and statesman, was born at Perth in Scotland, the eldest of six children.
Smith, Janet Adam. John Buchan: A Biography. R. Hart-Davis.
12, 14

October 1915

JB 's The Thirty-Nine Steps, published this month, the first of his thrillers to involve the character Richard Hannay, became his most famous title.
Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press.
115
Smith, Janet Adam. John Buchan: A Biography. R. Hart-Davis.
197

12 February 1940

JB , novelist, poet, historian, and statesman, died at the Neurological Institute at Montreal following a cerebral thrombosis.
Smith's introductory chronology wrongly places his death, like his funeral, at Ottawa. Her prose account explains that he was transferred after the thrombosis to Montreal, but in vain.
Smith, Janet Adam. John Buchan: A Biography. R. Hart-Davis.
12, 469-70
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Smith, Janet Adam. John Buchan: A Biography. R. Hart-Davis.
470

Biography

Birth and Background

26 August 1875

JB , novelist, poet, historian, and statesman, was born at Perth in Scotland, the eldest of six children.
Smith, Janet Adam. John Buchan: A Biography. R. Hart-Davis.
12, 14

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