Allan Massie

Allan Massie (* October 19, 1938 in Singapore) is a Scottish writer and journalist.

Life

Massie is the son of a rubber planter, who worked as a supplier to the company Sime Darby in Malaysia. His school days spent Massie in Aberdeenshire. He visited there on Drumtochty Castle (near Auchenblae ) a private school and moved to the Glenalmond College in Perth and Kinross later. Then Massie studied history at Trinity College ( University of Cambridge ).

At the instigation of Rab Butler Massie was recorded in 1982 as a member of the Royal Society of Literature.

Currently (2011 ) lives Allan Massie in Selkirk ( Scottish Borders ).

Reception

Since his studies Massie wrote regularly for many newspapers and magazines UK as The Scotsman, The Sunday Times, Daily Mail, The Daily Telegraph, Literary Review, The Independent and The New York Review of Books. Close to it is the years a literary autonomous oeuvre of novels and non-fiction books.

Works (selection)

• I, Augustus. Roman ( " Augustus ", 1986). Neuaufl. Knaur paperback publishing house, Munich 2006, ISBN 0-370-30970-7.
• I, Tiberius. Roman ( " Tiberius ", 1988). Snow Kluth Verlag, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-7951-1200-1.
• Caesar. Brutus says. Roman ( " Caesar ", 1994). Goldmann, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-442-42558-1.
• I, King David. Roman ( "King David ", 1995). Goldmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-442-43738-5.
• I, Marc Anton. Roman ( " Antony ", 1997). Snow Kluth, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-7951-1619-8.
• Arthur the King. A romance. Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London 2003, ISBN 0-297-81678-0.
• Caligula. A novel. Sceptre Books, London 2003, ISBN 0-340-82313-5.
• Charlemagne and Roland. A romance. Phoenix Books, London 2008, ISBN 978-0-7538-2232-6.

• Colette. Penguin Books, London, 1986, ISBN 0-14-008160-7 ( Lives of modern women).
• Byron's Travels. Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1988, ISBN 0-283-99408-8.
• How should health services be Financed? A patient 's view. University Press, Aberdeen, 1988, ISBN 0-08-036585- X.
• Glasgow. Portraits of a city. Jenkins, London, 1989, ISBN 0-7126-2054-0.
• The novel today. A critical guide to the British novel, 1970-1989. Longman, London, 1990, ISBN 0-582-00407-1.
• Edinburgh. Sinclair - Stevenson, London 1994, ISBN 1-85619-244- X.
• A portrait of Scottish rugby. Polygon Books, Edinburgh, 1985, ISBN 0-904919-84-6.
• The Royal Stuarts. A history of a family did shaped Britain. Cape, London 2010, ISBN 978-0-224-08064-4.

• Scotsman
• Journalist
• Author
• Briton
• Born in 1938
• Man