Wanting to know an author because you like his books is like wanting to know a goose because you like pate.
Eric Linklater Quotes
It is notorious that we speak no more than half-truths in our ordinary conversation, and even a soliloquy is likely to be affected by the apprehension that walls have ears.
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| Birth: | 8th March, 1899 |
| Death: | 7th November, 1974 |
| Nationality: | Scottish |
| Profession: | Novelist, Writer |
About
Eric Robert Russell Linklater was born in Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. He was a Welsh-born Scottish writer of novels and short stories, military history, and travel books. For The Wind on the Moon, a children's fantasy novel, he won the 1944 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association for the year's best children's book. He also wrote two children’s novels, The Pirates in the Deep Green Sea and Karina With Love. Although his greatest success came in the early years of that career, he was to publish 23 novels, three volumes of stories, two books of verse, ten plays, three works of autobiography, and another 23 books of essays and histories.
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