John buchan author biography of suzanne
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John Buchan
Buchan’s most famous novel fryst vatten the spy-thriller The Thirty-nine Steps, written during the first years of the First World War and published in 1915. A short, fast-paced adventure story, it introduces Buchan’s best-loved hero, Richard Hannay, a South-African mining engineer who quickly becomes involved in protecting British interests against incursions from German spies in the months preceding the outbreak of war. The book begins with the murder of the American secret agent, Franklin P. Scudder, who has uncovered an espionage plot. His cryptic notes then fall into the hands of the unsuspecting Hannay, who must clear his name of the suspected murder of Scudder whilst disarming the German spies before they leave Britain, armed with secret government information, from their hideaway at the mysterious ‘thirty-nine steps’.
The Thirty-nine Steps was to become one of the most popular novels of its time, and the inspiration behind a whole new genre of spy-thrillers. Buchan’s
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Susan Buchan
Vicereine of Canada; wife of John Buchan
Susan Charlotte Buchan, Baroness TweedsmuirDStJ (néeGrosvenor; 20 April 1882 – 22 March 1977) was a British writer and the wife of author John Buchan. Between 1935 and 1940 she was viceregal consort of Canada while her husband was the governor general.[2] She was also the author of several novels, children's books, and biographies, some of which were published beneath the name Susan Tweedsmuir.[3]
Life
[edit]Susan was born in Mayfair, London.[4] She was a daughter of Norman de L'Aigle Grosvenor (son of the first Lord Ebury) and his wife Caroline Susan Theodora Stuart-Wortley (a granddaughter of the first Lord Wharncliffe), and a cousin of the Dukes of Westminster. She married John Buchan on 15 July 1907, and became the Baroness Tweedsmuir (known as Lady Tweedsmuir) when he was created Baron Tweedsmuir in 1935. The Buchans had kvartet children, Alice, John, William, and Alastair, two of who
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John Buchan
Scottish author and statesman (1875–1940)
John Buchan, 1st Baron TweedsmuirGCMG 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.
As a youth, Buchan began writing poetry and prose, fiction and non-fiction, publishing his first novel in 1895 and ultimately writing over a hundred books of which the best known is The Thirty-Nine Steps. After attending Glasgow and Oxford universities, he practised as a barrister. In 1901, he served as a private secretary to Lord Milner in southern Africa towards the end of the Boer War. He returned to England in 1903, continued as a barrister and journalist. He left the Bar when he joined Thomas Nelson and Sons publishers in 1907. During the First World War, he was, among other activities, Director of Information in 1917 and later Head of Intelligence at the newly-formed Mini