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Eric Linklater

Scottish fiction, history and travel writer (1899–1974)

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Born
March 8, 1899
Died
November 7, 1974
Zodiac sign
Pisces
Birth year
1899

About Eric Linklater

Eric Robert Russell Linklater CBE was a Welsh-born Scottish poet, fiction writer, military historian, and travel writer. 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 by a British subject. As an undergraduate at Aberdeen University in 1922, Linklater wrote the first musical comedy for the Aberdeen Student Show, Stella, the Bajanella, with music by J. Its storytelling skill and treatment of wider themes such as imprisonment and freedom won it a Carnegie Medal. Linklater served in the Black Watch in 1917–1918 before receiving a bullet wound, then became a sniper.

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Eric Linklater timeline

  1. Linklater served in the Black Watch in 1917–1918 before receiving a bullet wound, then became a sniper.
  2. As an undergraduate at Aberdeen University in 1922, Linklater wrote the first musical comedy for the Aberdeen Student Show, Stella, the Bajanella, with music by J.
  3. 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 by a British subject.

The world when Eric Linklater was born

Eric Linklater was born in 1899. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Headlines and milestones

  • Top headlinePhilippine-American War begins
  • Technology milestoneFirst magnetic recording of sound
  • World population~1.59B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderWilliam McKinley
  • U.S. population72.0M

1899 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Eric Linklater's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure18992026
Population72.0M341 million

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