Allan Massie
| Allan Massie | |
|---|---|
| Born |
19 October 1938 Singapore |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Years active | 1978 - Present |
| Employer | The Scotsman |
| Agent | Rogers, Coleridge & White |
| Political party | Conservative Party (UK) |
| Children | Alex Massie |
| Awards | Scottish Arts Council Book Award, Frederick Niven Literary Award |
Allan Johnstone Massie CBE (born 1938) is a Scottish journalist, columnist, sports writer and novelist. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He has lived in the Scottish Borders for the last 25 years, and now lives in Selkirk.
Born on 19 October 1938, in Singapore, where his father was a rubber planter for Sime Darby, Massie spent his childhood in Aberdeenshire. He was educated at the private schools preparatory school and Glenalmond College in Perthshire before going on to attend Trinity College, Cambridge where he read history.
Massie is a journalist and critic of fiction, writing regular columns for The Scotsman, The Sunday Times (Scotland) and the Scottish Daily Mail. He has been The Scotsman's chief fiction reviewer for a quarter of a century and also regularly writes about rugby union and cricket for that paper. He has previously been a columnist for the Daily Telegraph, the Glasgow Herald, and was the Sunday Standard's television critic during that paper's brief existence. He is also a contributor to The Spectator - where he writes an occasional column, Life and Letters - the Literary Review and The Independent. He has also written for the New York Review of Books.
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