List of Scottish Writers - M

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  • Lord Macaulay, (1800–1859), essayist, historian and poet
  • Sharon McPherson (born 1965), writer and book publisher
  • Stuart MacBride, crime writer
  • Alexander McCall Smith
  • Fionn MacColla
  • Norman MacCaig, poet
  • J. McCullough, golf author
  • Val McDermid, (1955–present), crime fiction - Tartan Noir
  • Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978), poet
  • George Macdonald (1824–1905), poet and novelist
  • William Topaz McGonagall, poet, novelist
  • Alasdair Alpin MacGregor (1899–1970), writer, photographer and poet
  • Kenneth McGuigan, Marxist theory, history
  • William McIlvanney, crime writer
  • Helen Clark MacInnes (1907–1985), suspense novelist
  • Duncan McIntyre, Gaelic poet, a.k.a. Duncan Ban McIntyre
  • Martainn Mac an t-Saoir, Gaelic novelist
  • John William Mackail, classical scholar and writer
  • Kenneth McKay literary thriller writer
  • Chris McKenna,novelist and short story writer
  • Piers Mackesy (born 1924), military historian
  • Sorley MacLean (1911–1996), Scottish Gaelic poet
  • Ken MacLeod
  • Iain Finlay Macleod, Gaelic novelist
  • Henry Mackenzie
  • Ian Maclaren
  • Alistair MacLean
  • Robert McLellan
  • Gordon MacLeod (1967- ), novelist
  • Kevin MacNeil
  • James Macpherson (1736–1796), poet and presenter of the "Ossian" poems
  • Candia McWilliam, novelist
  • Lord Macaulay (1800–1859), essayist, historian and poet
  • Laura Marney, novelist
  • Sir John Malcolm (1769–1833), historian
  • Graham Masterton (born 1946)
  • Gavin Maxwell
  • Peter May (writer)
  • Mark Millar, comic book writer
  • Hugh Miller(1802–1856), geologist
  • Denise Mina (born 1966), Crime writer
  • Edwin Morgan (born 1920), Scottish poet
  • Grant Morrison, comic book writer
  • Edwin Muir (1887–1959), novelist and poet
  • Charles Murray (1864–1941), poet

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