An alphabetical list of Scottish writers includes the following:
A
- Thomas Aird, (1802-1876), poet
- Alasdair MacMhaighstir Alasdair, (c.1695-1770), poet
- William Alexander, Earl of Stirling (c.1570-1640)
- Marion Angus
- Margot Asquith, writer and wit
- Sir Robert Ayton, (1570-1638), poet
- William Edmonstoune Aytoun, (1813-1865), poet, humourist and writer
B
- Lady Grizel Baillie, (1665-1746), song-writer
- RM Ballantyne
- Iain Banks, (born 1954), a.k.a Iain M. Banks
- John Barbour, (1316-1395), poet
- Sir James Matthew Barrie, (1860-1937), novelist and dramatist, creator of Peter Pan
- William Black (1841-1898)
- Robert Blair, (1699-1746), poet
- George Blake
- James Boswell, (1740-1795), biographer of Samuel Johnson and diarist
- James Bridie
- Christopher Brookmyre (born 1968)
- George Douglas Brown
- John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, (1875-1940), novelist (The Thirty-Nine Steps)
- Robert Burns, (1759-1796)
C
D
F
G
H
J,K
L
Mac/Mc
- Fionn Mac Colla
- Norman MacCaig, poet
- J. McCullough, golf author
- Hugh MacDiarmid, (1892-1978), poet
- George Macdonald, (1824-1905), poet and novelist. Admired by W. H. Auden, J. R. R. Tolkien, Madeleine L'Engle, C. S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton, Lewis Carroll and, eventually, Mark Twain.
- William Topaz McGonagall, poet, novelist
- Alasdair Alpin MacGregor, (1899-1970), writer, photographer and poet
- Duncan McIntyre, Gaelic poet, a.k.a Duncan Ban McIntyre
- John William Mackail, classical scholar and writer
- Helen Clark MacInnes, (1907-1985), suspense novelist
- Sorley MacLean, (1911-1996), Scottish Gaelic poet
- Ken MacLeod
- Henry Mackenzie
- Ian Maclaren
- Alistair MacLean
- Robert McLellan
- James Macpherson, (1736-1796), poet and presenter of the "Ossian" poems
M
O,R
S
- Alexander Scott
- Michael Scott, (1789-1835), author
- Sir Walter Scott, (1771-1832), novelist and poet (Ivanhoe etc.)
- William Sharp, (1855-1905), poet and biographer
- Nan Shepherd
- Samuel Smiles, (1812-1904)
- Sydney Goodsir Smith
- Tobias Smollett, (1721-1771), novelist
- William Soutar
- Muriel Spark, (born 1918), novelist (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)
- Robert Louis Stevenson, (1850-1894), novelist, poet and travel writer (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Treasure Island etc.)
- Mary Stewart
- Annie S Swan
T
U,W
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