Word: buchan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...latest novel, "The Dancing Floor," Mr. Buchan shifts somewhat his old location of the Highlands, and his gentlemen are not of his usual type of British sportsmen. It is, in fact, somewhat of a shock to see his technique work as well amongst the hills of an Aegan island as amongst his own Trossachs, and the psychological actuate his characters where once the adventurous ran them in and out of impossible situations. But the change is not displeasing nor unconvincing. He shows, moreover, a knowledge of ancient rites and prehistoric religions that lend a peculiar fascination to the tale...
Colonel John Buchan, famed historian and novelist, acted in the novel role of representative of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, when he presented to the British Museum a replica of the Great Seal of the Confederacy...
...author of Greenmantle, Midwinter, The Three Hostages (one of the finest romances of modern times) was in Manhattan the other day for a few hours. Lieutenant Colonel John Buchan is a short, quiet-spoken, modest English author. In those characteristics, he is like Walter de la Mare and W. Somerset Maugham, our other English visitors of the moment. They arrived without blaring of trumpets-and both Buchan and Maugham departed quietly, after seeing a few things at the theatre and saying "how-do-you-do-goodbye" to a few friends...
When I met John Buchan the other day, I said to him: "How I should like to find time to read your History of the Great War." His reply was: "Well, there are a million words of it!" He is not only a writer of stirring romantic novels, but the best historian, so far, of the recent War. In fact, two talents-literary and historical -became evident early in his career; for he won prizes in both subjects while at Oxford, where he was educated after preliminaries at Glasgow University...
...born in Scotland, in 1875, at Perth, of an old Border family. His mother was a cousin of Mr. Gladstone. Mr. Buchan regards writing as his avocation. He was called to the English bar in 1901. He has seen duty in South Africa-both worked and shot big game there. He has collaborated in writing a legal textbook on taxation of foreign income. He is partner in Thomas Nelson & Sons, one of the largest publishing houses in the world. Nor has he escaped politics; he once stood for his county as Unionist candidate for Parliament. His War career was brilliant...