Neil M. Gunn, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Neil M. Gunn

Scottish novelist, critic, and dramatist

Date of Birth: 08-Nov-1891

Place of Birth: Dunbeath, Scotland, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 15-Jan-1973

Profession: writer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Neil Miller Gunn (8 November 1891 – 15 January 1973) was a prolific novelist, critic, and dramatist who emerged as one of the leading lights of the Scottish Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s.
With over twenty novels to his credit, Gunn was arguably the most influential Scottish fiction writer of the first half of the 20th century (with the possible exception of Lewis Grassic Gibbon, the pen name of James Leslie Mitchell). Like his contemporary, Hugh MacDiarmid, Gunn was politically committed to the ideals of both Scottish nationalism and socialism (a difficult balance to maintain for a writer of his time).
His fiction deals primarily with the Highland communities and landscapes of his youth, though the author chose (contra MacDiarmid and his followers) to write almost exclusively in English rather than Scots or Gaelic but was heavily influenced in his writing style by the language.