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Neil Miller Gunn (8 November 1891 – 15 January 1973) was a prolific Scottish novelist, critic, and dramatist who emerged as one of the leading lights of the Scottish Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s.
Neil Miller Gunn was born on 8 th November 1891 in the village of Dunbeath, Caithness, the seventh of a family of nine children. Neil’s father, James Gunn, was skipper of a fishing boat, which meant that he was away from home for long periods of time. The upbringing of the family was entrusted to Neil’s mother, Isabella Miller Gunn.
Neil M. Gunn was a prolific novelist, critic and dramatist, who emerged as one of the leading lights of the Scottish Literary Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s. In 1937 he was awarded the prestigious James Tait Black Memorial Prize' for fiction.
He was was a prolific novelist, critic and dramatist who emerged as one of the leading lights of the "Scottish Renaissance" of the 1920s and 1930s. He is rated, alongside Lewis Grassic Gibbon, as one of the two most important Scottish authors in the first half of the 20th Century.
Neil Miller Gunn (born Nov. 8, 1891, Dunbeath, Caithness, Scot.—died Jan. 15, 1973, Inverness) was a Scottish author whose novels are set in the Highlands and in the seaside villages of his native land. Gunn entered the civil service at age 15, working for Customs and Excise from 1911 to 1937.
The Grey Coast (1926) “The Grey Coast is the coast of the Moray Firth, where Neil M. Gunn’s crofter-fishermen blend like their crofts into a harsh landscape. It was a hard, almost bitter book, probably caused in part by the shock Neil received when he returned to Lybster in 1922 and instead of finding again the land of his childhood which perhaps he had grown to idealise, he found a people ...
Neil Gunn, one of Scotland's most prolific and distinguished novelists, wrote over a period that spanned the Recession, the political crises of the 1920's and 1930's, and the Second World War and its aftermath.
