William McIlvanney
William McIlvanney, ( born November 25, 1936 in Kilmarnock, Scotland) is a writer who has become known for thrillers and novels of social criticism. He studied at the Kilmarnock Academy and the University of Glasgow. He worked for 17 years as a teacher before he decided to just write. For his first novel Remedy is none, he received the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. With Docherty, one of his most important novels of social criticism, McIlvanney won the 1975 Whitbread award. In three novels - Laidlaw, The Papers of Tony Veitch and Strange Loyalties - is the disillusioned detective Laidlaw at the center. These detective novels provide a ruthlessly realistic picture of the situation marked by social upheaval in Glasgow in the 1980s and 1990s. McIlvanney living as a journalist and freelance writer in Glasgow.
Works
- Remedy is none. 1967
- A gift from Nessus
- Laidlaw
- The papers of Tony Veitch
- Docherty. 1975
- Walking Wounded
- The big one. 1985
- Strange Loyalties. 1991