Eric Linklater

1899 - 1974

movement: Scottish Renaissance

country of citizenship: United Kingdom, Wales

languages spoken, written or signed: English

educated at: University of Aberdeen, University of California, Berkeley, Cornell University, Aberdeen Grammar School

occupation: writer, historian, journalist, autobiographer, screenwriter, politician, novelist, children's writer

award received: Carnegie Medal, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

position held: rector

Eric Robert Russell Linklater CBE (8 March 1899 – 7 November 1974) was a Welsh-born Scottish poet, fiction writer, military historian, and travel writer. For The Wind on the Moon, a children's fantasy novel, he won the 1944 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association for the year's best children's book by a British subject. Source: Wikipedia (en)