Family
He was the son of Lord Ritchie Calder (1906–1982), a noted science writer, Humanist and pacifist. His first wife was Jenni, née Jennifer Daiches, daughter of noted Scottish literary critic David Daiches, with whom Calder collaborated on a book about Sir Walter Scott in 1969.
His siblings were Nigel Calder, mathematician Allan Calder and educationist Isla Calder (1946–2000),
His nephew is Simon Calder.
In 1971, after the publication of The People's War, the Calders moved to Edinburgh, where he published Russia Discovered,a survey of 19th-century Russian fiction in 1976, and, three years later, became staff tutor in Arts with the Open University. The Calders had two daughters - Rachel and Gowan - and a son, Gideon. His first marriage ended in 1982; he married Kate Kyle in 1986, with whom he had a son, Douglas, born 1989. He took early retirement from the Open University in 1995, his life increasingly shaped by a long-term alcohol dependency.
He died from lung cancer on 5 June 2008, aged 66.
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