Launch of The Life Of George Mackay Brown
National Library of Scotland
George IV Bridge, Edinburgh
6.30pm
Free
George Mackay Brown, who died 10 years ago this April, was one of Scotland's greatest writers. Maggie Fergusson interviewed him several times, and is the only biographer to whom he gave his blessing. Her biography, The Life of George Mackay Brown, shows the life of this quiet, unassuming man to have been vivid, courageous and surprising.
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£25.00The Life Of George Mackay Brown: The Life - Hardback -
George Mackay Brown was one of Scotland's greatest 20th century writers, but in person a bundle of paradoxes. Maggie Fergusson interviewed him several times and is the only biographer to whom he gave his blessing. Through his letters and through conversations with his acquaintance, she discovers that his life was vivid and surprising.