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Sir Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie, OBE (17 January 1883 – 30 November 1972) was a Scottish writer of fiction, biography, histories and a memoir, as well as a cultural commentator, raconteur and lifelong Scottish nationalist.
Compton Mackenzie has 209 books on Goodreads with 10943 ratings. Compton Mackenzie’s most popular book is Whisky Galore.
Compton Mackenzie (born Jan. 17, 1883, West Hartlepool, Durham, Eng.—died Nov. 30, 1972, Edinburgh) was a British novelist who suffered critical acclaim and neglect with equal indifference, leaving a prodigious output of more than 100 novels, plays, and biographies.
Nov 30, 2022 · November 30, 2022 10 mins. It was a most fortuitous shipwreck. The S.S. Politician floundered on rocks near the island of Eriskay in the Outer Hebrides in February 1941, cutting short its journey from Liverpool to the USA. The hull was breached and the ship could not be saved.
Sir Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie, OBE (17 January 1883 – 30 November 1972) was an English-born author and broadcaster, a writer of Scottish fiction, biography, and histories, as well as a cultural commentator, raconteur, and lifelong Scottish nationalist.
Sir Compton Mackenzie, OBE (/ ˈ k ʌ m p t ən m ə ˈ k ɛ n z ɪ /; 17 January 1883 – 30 November 1972) was a prolific writer of fiction, biography, histories, and memoir, as well as a cultural commentator, raconteur, and lifelong Scottish nationalist.
Sir Compton Mackenzie, OBE (17 Januar 1883 – 30 November 1972) wis a Scots writer o fiction, biographie, histories an a memoir, as weel as a cultural commentator, raconteur an lifelang Scots naitionalist.
