Allan Massie is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
15 Facts About Allan Massie
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Allan Massie has lived in the Scottish Borders for the last 25 years, and now lives in Selkirk.
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Allan Massie was educated at Drumtochty Castle preparatory school and Glenalmond College in Perthshire before going on to attend Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read history.
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Allan Massie is a journalist and critic of fiction, writing regular columns for The Scotsman, The Sunday Times and the Scottish Daily Mail.
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Allan Massie has been The Scotsman's chief fiction reviewer for a quarter of a century and regularly writes about rugby union and cricket for that paper.
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Allan Massie has previously been a columnist for The Daily Telegraph, the Glasgow Herald, and was the Sunday Standard's television critic during that paper's brief existence.
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Allan Massie is a contributor to The Spectator - where he writes an occasional column, Life and Letters - the Literary Review, The Independent, and The Catholic Herald.
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Allan Massie has written for the New York Review of Books.
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Allan Massie was a leading, if lonely, campaigner against Scottish devolution, and a critic of much of the legislation passed by the Scottish Parliament since its establishment in 1999.
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Allan Massie is a great admirer of Sir Walter Scott.
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Allan Massie is the author of nearly 30 books, including 20 novels.
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Allan Massie is notable for writing about the distant past, and the middle class, rather than grittier elements of the present.
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Allan Massie was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to literature.
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Allan Massie is a keen rugby fan and writer, and came up with an all time XV in 1984.
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Players that Allan Massie includes in his early selection, but not in the final team include:.