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Gunn</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Neil_M._Gunn.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6c/Neil_M._Gunn.jpg/220px-Neil_M._Gunn.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6c/Neil_M._Gunn.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="270" data-file-height="360" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Born</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">Neil Miller Gunn<br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1891-11-08</span>)</span>8 November 1891<br /><a href="/wiki/Dunbeath" title="Dunbeath">Dunbeath</a>, Caithness, Scotland</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Died</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">15 January 1973<span style="display:none">(1973-01-15)</span> (aged 81)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role" style="line-height:1.4em;">Novelist</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data category" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scottish</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Genre</th><td class="infobox-data category" style="line-height:1.4em;">general fiction</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Subject</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">Scottish Highlands</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Literary movement</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">20th century <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Renaissance" title="Scottish Renaissance">Scottish Renaissance</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Notable works</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><i>The Silver Darlings</i> (1941)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Notable awards</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/James_Tait_Black_Memorial_Prize" title="James Tait Black Memorial Prize">James Tait Black Memorial Prize</a> for fiction</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">Jessie Dallas Frew (m. 1921–</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Website</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://neilgunn.org.uk">neilgunn<wbr />.org<wbr />.uk</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Neil Miller Gunn</b> (8 November 1891 – 15 January 1973) was a prolific Scottish novelist, critic, and dramatist who emerged as one of the leading lights of the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Renaissance" title="Scottish Renaissance">Scottish Renaissance</a> of the 1920s and 1930s. With over twenty novels to his credit, Gunn was arguably the most influential <a href="/wiki/Scottish_literature" title="Scottish literature">Scottish</a> fiction writer of the first half of the 20th century (with the possible exception of <a href="/wiki/Lewis_Grassic_Gibbon" title="Lewis Grassic Gibbon">Lewis Grassic Gibbon</a>, the pen name of <a href="/wiki/James_Leslie_Mitchell" class="mw-redirect" title="James Leslie Mitchell">James Leslie Mitchell</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-KW58_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-KW58-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 326, 333, 339">: 326, 333, 339 </span></sup> </p><p>Like his contemporary, <a href="/wiki/Hugh_MacDiarmid" title="Hugh MacDiarmid">Hugh MacDiarmid</a>, Gunn was politically committed to the ideals of both Scottish nationalism and socialism (a difficult balance to maintain for a writer of his time). His fiction deals primarily with the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Highlands" title="Scottish Highlands">Highland</a> communities and landscapes of his youth,<sup id="cite_ref-KW58_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-KW58-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 325">: 325 </span></sup> though the author chose (<i>contra</i> MacDiarmid and his followers) to write almost exclusively in English rather than <a href="/wiki/Scots_language" title="Scots language">Scots</a> or <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic" title="Scottish Gaelic">Gaelic</a> but was heavily influenced in his writing style by the language.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Neil_M._Gunn&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Neil Miller Gunn was born in the village of <a href="/wiki/Dunbeath" title="Dunbeath">Dunbeath</a>, Caithness. His father was the captain of a <a href="/wiki/Herring" title="Herring">herring</a> boat, and Gunn's fascination with the sea and the courage of fishermen can be traced directly back to his childhood memories of his father's work. His mother would also provide Gunn with a crucial model for the types of steadfast, earthy, and tradition-bearing women that would populate many of his works. </p><p>Gunn had eight siblings, and when his primary schooling was completed in 1904, he moved south to live with his older sister Mary and her husband Dr. Keiller, the local GP at Kenbank in <a href="/wiki/St_John%27s_Town_of_Dalry" title="St John's Town of Dalry">St John's Town of Dalry</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kirkcudbrightshire" title="Kirkcudbrightshire">Kirkcudbrightshire</a>. He continued his education there with tutors including the local schoolmaster, and the writer and poet J.G.Carter "Theodore Mayne". He sat the <a href="/wiki/Civil_Service_(United_Kingdom)" title="Civil Service (United Kingdom)">Civil Service</a> exam in 1907. This led to a move to London, where the adolescent Gunn was exposed to both the exciting world of new political and philosophical ideas as well as to the seamier side of modern urban life. In 1910 Gunn became a <a href="/wiki/HM_Customs_and_Excise" title="HM Customs and Excise">Customs and Excise</a> Officer and was posted back to the Highlands. He would remain a customs officer throughout the First World War and until he was well established as a writer in 1937.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Marriage">Marriage</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Neil_M._Gunn&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Marriage"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Gunn married Jessie Dallas Frew in 1921 and they settled in <a href="/wiki/Inverness" title="Inverness">Inverness</a>, near his permanent excise post at the <a href="/wiki/Glen_Mhor_distillery" title="Glen Mhor distillery">Glen Mhor distillery</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (June 2015)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Beginnings_as_a_writer">Beginnings as a writer</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Neil_M._Gunn&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Beginnings as a writer"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During the 1920s Gunn began to publish short stories, as well as poems and short essays, in various literary magazines. He also wrote a number of plays. His <i>The Ancient Fire</i> was staged at the Lyric Theatre in <a href="/wiki/Glasgow" title="Glasgow">Glasgow</a> in 1929.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His writing brought him into contact with other writers associated with the budding <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Renaissance" title="Scottish Renaissance">Scottish Renaissance</a>, such as Hugh MacDiarmid, <a href="/wiki/James_Bridie" title="James Bridie">James Bridie</a>, <a href="/wiki/Naomi_Mitchison" title="Naomi Mitchison">Naomi Mitchison</a>, <a href="/wiki/Eric_Linklater" title="Eric Linklater">Eric Linklater</a>, <a href="/wiki/Edwin_Muir" title="Edwin Muir">Edwin Muir</a>, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, and <a href="/wiki/George_Blake_(novelist)" title="George Blake (novelist)">George Blake</a>. </p><p>Blake and <a href="/wiki/George_Malcolm_Thomson_(1899%E2%80%931996)" class="mw-redirect" title="George Malcolm Thomson (1899–1996)">George Malcolm Thomson</a> were running the <a href="/wiki/Porpoise_Press" class="mw-redirect" title="Porpoise Press">Porpoise Press</a>, whose mission was to reestablish a national publishing industry for Scotland, by now an imprint of <a href="/wiki/Faber_%26_Faber" title="Faber & Faber">Faber & Faber</a>, and they became Gunn's publisher in the early 1930s. The first novels Gunn published were <i>The Grey Coast</i> in 1926 and <i>The Lost Glen</i> in 1928. During this period, Gunn was active in the <a href="/wiki/National_Party_of_Scotland" title="National Party of Scotland">National Party of Scotland</a>, which formed part of what became the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_National_Party" title="Scottish National Party">Scottish National Party</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_professional_writer">The professional writer</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Neil_M._Gunn&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: The professional writer"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Neil_Gunn_memorial.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Neil_Gunn_memorial.JPG/220px-Neil_Gunn_memorial.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Neil_Gunn_memorial.JPG/330px-Neil_Gunn_memorial.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Neil_Gunn_memorial.JPG/440px-Neil_Gunn_memorial.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="3000" /></a><figcaption>Part of the Neil Gunn memorial above <a href="/wiki/Strathpeffer" title="Strathpeffer">Strathpeffer</a>, erected by the Neil M. Gunn Memorial Trust.</figcaption></figure> <p>Following the publishing success of <i>Highland River</i> (for which he was awarded the 1937 <a href="/wiki/James_Tait_Black_Memorial_Prize" title="James Tait Black Memorial Prize">James Tait Black Memorial Prize</a> for fiction), Gunn was able to resign from the Customs and Excise in 1937 and become a full-time writer. He rented a farmhouse near <a href="/wiki/Strathpeffer" title="Strathpeffer">Strathpeffer</a> and embarked on his most productive period as a novelist and essayist. <i>Butcher's Broom</i> and <i>The Silver Darlings</i> are historical novels dealing with the <a href="/wiki/Highland_Clearances" title="Highland Clearances">Highland Clearances</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/Young_Art_and_Old_Hector" title="Young Art and Old Hector">Young Art and Old Hector</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Green_Isle_of_the_Great_Deep" title="The Green Isle of the Great Deep">The Green Isle of the Great Deep</a></i> are both fantasies based on Scottish folklore.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Gunn's later works in the 1940s and into the 1950s became concerned with issues of <a href="/wiki/Totalitarianism" title="Totalitarianism">totalitarianism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-KW58_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-KW58-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 338">: 338 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_Highland_Zen_master">The Highland Zen master</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Neil_M._Gunn&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: The Highland Zen master"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Gunn's final full-length work was a discursive autobiography entitled <i>The Atom of Delight</i>. This text showed the influence which a reading of <a href="/wiki/Eugen_Herrigel" title="Eugen Herrigel">Eugen Herrigel</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Zen_in_the_Art_of_Archery" title="Zen in the Art of Archery">Zen in the Art of Archery</a></i> had upon Gunn. His utilisation of these ideas was not so much mystical as providing a view of the individual in a <i>"small self-contained community, with a long-established way of life, with actions and responses known and defined"</i>. He took the playing of <a href="/wiki/Fiddle" title="Fiddle">fiddle</a> <a href="/wiki/Reel_(dance)" title="Reel (dance)">reels</a> as an example: <i>"how a human hand could perform, on its own, truly astonishing feats – astonishing in the sense that if thought interfered for a moment the feat was destroyed"</i>. This thought-free state could be a source of delight.<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ncolloff.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/zen-in-art-of-neil-gunn.html">Zen in the art of Neil Gunn</a> </p><p>In his later years, Gunn was involved in broadcasting and also published in diverse journals such as <i><a href="/wiki/Anarchy_Magazine" class="mw-redirect" title="Anarchy Magazine">Anarchy Magazine</a></i> in London, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Glasgow_Herald" class="mw-redirect" title="The Glasgow Herald">The Glasgow Herald</a></i>, <i>Holiday</i> (USA), <i>Saltire Review</i>, <i>Scotland's Magazine</i>, <i>Scots Review</i>, and <i>Point</i> magazine in <a href="/wiki/Leicester" title="Leicester">Leicester</a>. </p><p>In his later years Gunn lived on the <a href="/wiki/Black_Isle" title="Black Isle">Black Isle</a>. He died in Raigmore Hospital in Inverness on 15 January 1973, aged 81.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Neil_M._Gunn&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Gunn is commemorated in <a href="/wiki/Makars%27_Court" title="Makars' Court">Makars' Court</a>, outside the <a href="/wiki/Writers%27_Museum" title="Writers' Museum">Writers' Museum</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lawnmarket" class="mw-redirect" title="Lawnmarket">Lawnmarket</a>, Edinburgh. Selections for Makars' Court are made by the Writers' Museum; the <a href="/wiki/Saltire_Society" title="Saltire Society">Saltire Society</a>; the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Poetry_Library" title="Scottish Poetry Library">Scottish Poetry Library</a>. The Neil Gunn Trust was established in 1986, and in October 1987 a monument to the writer was unveiled on the Heights of Brae, Strathpeffer.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Neil Gunn Writing Competition was established in 1988 by Ross & Cromarty District Council (later becoming the Highland Council) and the Trust. The competition is now organised by High Life Highland and the Trust.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kenn_and_the_Salmon.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Kenn_and_the_Salmon.jpg/220px-Kenn_and_the_Salmon.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Kenn_and_the_Salmon.jpg/330px-Kenn_and_the_Salmon.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Kenn_and_the_Salmon.jpg/440px-Kenn_and_the_Salmon.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption><i>Kenn and the Salmon</i>, from the characters in <i>Highland River</i>, a statue erected in memory of Neil Gunn at Dunbeath</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Neil_M._Gunn&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dt>Novels</dt></dl> <ul><li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Grey_Coast&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Grey Coast (page does not exist)">The Grey Coast</a> </i> (1926)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Lost_Glen&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Lost Glen (page does not exist)">The Lost Glen</a></i> (1928)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Morning_Tide_(book)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Morning Tide (book) (page does not exist)">Morning Tide</a></i> (1931)</li> <li><i>The Poaching at Grianan</i> (1930 as serial in <i>Scots Magazine</i>) (2005)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sun_Circle&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sun Circle (page does not exist)">Sun Circle</a></i> (1933)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Butcher%27s_Broom_(novel)" title="Butcher's Broom (novel)">Butcher's Broom</a></i> (1934) (1935 American printing under title <i>Highland Night</i>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Highland_River" title="Highland River">Highland River</a></i> (1937)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wild_Geese_Overhead&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wild Geese Overhead (page does not exist)">Wild Geese Overhead</a></i> (1939)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Second_Sight_(Neil_Gunn)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Second Sight (Neil Gunn) (page does not exist)">Second Sight</a></i> (1940)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Silver_Darlings" title="The Silver Darlings">The Silver Darlings</a></i> (1941) (filmed in 1947)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Young_Art_and_Old_Hector" title="Young Art and Old Hector">Young Art and Old Hector</a></i> (1942)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Serpent_(Neil_Gunn)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Serpent (Neil Gunn) (page does not exist)">The Serpent</a></i> (1943)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Green_Isle_of_the_Great_Deep" title="The Green Isle of the Great Deep">The Green Isle of the Great Deep</a></i> (1944)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Key_of_the_Chest&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Key of the Chest (page does not exist)">The Key of the Chest</a></i> (1945)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Drinking_Well&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Drinking Well (page does not exist)">The Drinking Well</a></i> (1946)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Silver_Bough&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Silver Bough (page does not exist)">The Silver Bough</a></i> (1948)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Shadow_(Neil_Gunn)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Shadow (Neil Gunn) (page does not exist)">The Shadow</a></i> (1948)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Lost_Chart&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Lost Chart (page does not exist)">The Lost Chart</a></i> (1949)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Well_at_the_World%27s_End_(Neil_Gunn)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Well at the World's End (Neil Gunn) (page does not exist)">The Well at the World's End</a></i> (1951)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Blood_Hunt_(Neil_Gunn)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Blood Hunt (Neil Gunn) (page does not exist)">Blood Hunt</a></i> (1952) (adapted for <a href="/wiki/Screen_Two#Series_Two" title="Screen Two">television</a> in 1986)<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>The Other Landscape</i> (1954)</li></ul> <dl><dt>Short stories</dt></dl> <ul><li><i>Hidden Doors</i> (1929)</li> <li><i>The White Hour</i> (1950)</li> <li><i>The Tax-Gatherer</i></li></ul> <dl><dt>Essays and autobiography</dt></dl> <ul><li><i>Whisky and Scotland</i> (1935)</li> <li><i>Off in a Boat</i> (1938)</li> <li><i>Highland Pack</i> (1949)</li> <li><i>The Atom of Delight</i> (1956)</li></ul> <dl><dt>Plays</dt></dl> <ul><li><i>The Ancient Fire</i> (1929)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Literary_criticism">Literary criticism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Neil_M._Gunn&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Literary criticism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Burns, John, <i>Neil M. Gunn: Celebration of the Light</i>, in Hearn, Sheila G. (ed.), <i><a href="/wiki/Cencrastus" title="Cencrastus">Cencrastus</a></i> No. 11, New Year 1983, pp. 29 – 31, <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/search?fq=x0:jrnl&q=n2:0264-0856">0264-0856</a></li> <li>Burns, John, <i>Celebration of the Light: Zen in the Novels of Neil M. Gunn,</i> Edinburgh: Canongate, 1988</li> <li>Gifford, Douglas, <i>Neil M. Gunn and Lewis Grassic Gibbon</i>. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1983, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780050031988" title="Special:BookSources/9780050031988">9780050031988</a></li> <li>Laplace, Philippe, <i>Les Hautes-Terres, l'histoire et la mémoire dans les romans de Neil M. Gunn</i>. Besançon: PUFC, 2006</li> <li>McCulloch, Margery, <i>The Novels of Neil M. Gunn: A Critical Study</i>. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1987</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Price_(poet)" title="Richard Price (poet)">Price, Richard</a>, <i>The Fabulous Matter of Fact: The Poetics of Neil M. Gunn</i>. Edinburgh University Press, 1991</li> <li>Price, Richard, "Argument and Innovation in the Work of Neil M. Gunn", in Dunn, Angus (ed.), <i>Northwords</i> Issue 1, Autumn 1991, pp. 46 - 48, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/search?fq=x0:jrnl&q=n2:0964-6876">0964-6876</a></li> <li>Scott, Alexander and Gifford, Douglas, <i>Neil M. Gunn: The Man and the Writer</i>. Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1973</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Neil_M._Gunn&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Gunn, Neil M. <i>Selected Letters</i>, ed. J.B. Pick (1986), Polygon Books</li> <li>Hart, Francis; Pick, J.B. (1985). <i>Neil M. Gunn: a Highland Life</i>. Edinburgh: Polygon. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-904919-95-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-904919-95-1">0-904919-95-1</a>. (originally published John Murray, London, (1981))</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margery_Palmer_McCulloch" title="Margery Palmer McCulloch">McCulloch, Margery</a>, <i>The Novels of Neil M. Gunn</i>, in Lindsay, Maurice (ed.), <i>The Scottish Review: Arts and Environment</i>, August 1980, pp. 46 – 50, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/search?fq=x0:jrnl&q=n2:0140-0894">0140-0894</a></li> <li>Pick, J.B. (2004) <i>Neil Gunn</i>. Northcote House, for British Council. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7463-0989-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-7463-0989-9">0-7463-0989-9</a></li> <li>Smith, Donald (1983), <i><a href="/wiki/Naomi_Mitchison" title="Naomi Mitchison">Naomi Mitchison</a> and Neil Gunn: A Highland Friendship</i>, in Hearn, Sheila G. (ed.), <i><a href="/wiki/Cencrastus" title="Cencrastus">Cencrastus</a></i> No 13, Summer 1983, pp. 17 – 20, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/search?fq=x0:jrnl&q=n2:0264-0856">0264-0856</a></li> <li>Stokoe, C.J.L. (1987), <i>A Bibliography of the Works of Neil M. Gunn</i>, Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Neil_M._Gunn&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-KW58-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-KW58_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-KW58_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-KW58_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWittig1978" class="citation book cs1">Wittig, Kurt (1978) [1958]. <i>The Scottish Tradition in Literature</i>. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">17 November</span> 2012</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=BBC+Two+%E2%80%93+Writing+Scotland+%E2%80%93+Neil+M+Gunn&rft.pub=BBC&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fscotland%2Farts%2Fwritingscotland%2Flearning_journeys%2Ftartan_myths%2Fneil_m_gunn&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ANeil+M.+Gunn" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120513122258/http://birlinn.co.uk/author/details/Neil-M--Gunn-742/">"Neil M. Gunn profile"</a>. Birlinn.co.uk. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">21 June</span> 2015</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Neil+M.+Gunn+profile&rft.pub=Birlinn.co.uk&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fbirlinn.co.uk%2Fauthor%2Fdetails%2FNeil-M--Gunn-742&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ANeil+M.+Gunn" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/2SMhK7YlrfpdsCQVyNpPQ4Q/neil-m-gunn">"Writing Scotland: Neil M Gunn"</a>. <i>BBC Two</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=BBC+Two&rft.atitle=Writing+Scotland%3A+Neil+M+Gunn&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fprogrammes%2Fprofiles%2F2SMhK7YlrfpdsCQVyNpPQ4Q%2Fneil-m-gunn&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ANeil+M.+Gunn" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Price, Richard, "Argument and Innovation in the Work of Neil M. Gunn", in Dunn, Angus (ed.), <i>Northwords</i> Issue 1, Autumn 1991, <a href="/wiki/Ross_and_Cromarty" title="Ross and Cromarty">Ross and Cromarty</a> Association of Writers' Groups, pp. 46 - 48, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/search?fq=x0:jrnl&q=n2:0964-6876">0964-6876</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.neilgunncircle.org.uk">Neil Gunn webpage</a>, neilgunncircle.org.uk. Retrieved 29 June 2015.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMacGillivray1997" class="citation book cs1">MacGillivray, Alan (1997). <i>Teaching Scottish Literature: Curriculum and Classroom Applications</i>. 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