John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir GCMG GCVO CH PC DL (26 August 1875 – 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian, and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation.
In his last years, Buchan wrote his autobiography Memory Hold-the-Door, American title Pilgrim's Way.
Buchan's 100 works include nearly 30 novels, seven collections of short stories, and biographies of Sir Walter Scott, Caesar Augustus, and Oliver Cromwell. He was awarded the 1928 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his biography of the Marquess of Montrose, but the most famous of his books were the spy thrillers, and it is for these that he is now best remembered.
A few of his novels
Prester John 1910 T. Nelson Publishers
Salute to Adventurers 1915 T. Nelson Publishers
The Thirty-Nine Steps 1915 William Blackwood & Sons
The Power-House 1916 William Blackwood & Sons
Greenmantle 1916 Hodder & Stoughton
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[Janet Adam Smith wrote an earlier biography of John Buchan. Janet Buchanan Adam Smith OBE (9 December 1905 – 11 September 1999) was a writer, editor, literary journalist and champion of Scottish literature. She was active from the 1930s through to the end of the century and noted for her elegant prose, her penetrating judgement, her independence of mind – and her deep love of mountains and mountaineering.]
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