Alistair MacLean

Ian Stuart

Born April 21, 1922· Glasgow, Scotland

† Died February 2, 1987

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Born in Glasgow’s Shettleston district and raised near Inverness, he grew up speaking Gaelic before attending school and later earning an English MA at the University of Glasgow; his wartime service as a torpedoman aboard HMS Royalist supplied material for his first novel, HMS Ulysses. Early success came with The Guns of Navarone, whose cinematic adaptation and the later film Ice Station Zebra cem… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources