Smith, Iain Crichton (poet and author)
Dates
- Existence: 1928-1996. - 1996
Biography
Iain Crichton Smith was born in Glasgow, but his parents were both from the Isle of Lewis and the family moved back there in 1930.
Crichton Smith was educated at the Nicholson Institute (Stornoway) and the University of Aberdeen. He was a teacher by profession and taught at schools in Clydebank, Dumbarton and Oban until he retired in 1977 to pursue his writing career. Prolific, both in his native Gaelic and in English, he favoured exploring themes of island culture and religion. Though first and foremost a poet, he also produced novels, short stories, plays and criticism.
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
168 letters to George Mackay Brown.
Correspondents include Willa Muir, Iain Crichton Smith and Ian Hamilton Finlay.
168 letters to George Mackay Brown from various correspondents including Willa Muir, Iain Crichton Smith and Ian Hamilton Finlay.
Correspondence of and relating to Iain Crichton Smith.
Letters to, and audio-cassettes of interviews by, Raymond Ross, editor of "Cencrastus".
Interviewees and correspondents include Valda Grieve, Norman MacCaig, Sorley MacLean, Edwin Morgan, Iain Crichton Smith.
Letters to Ian Rankin of correspondents with surnames and corporate names beginning S-Y, and of unidentified correspondents., 1978-2018, undated.
Letters to Maurice Lindsay from various literary figures.
Correspondents include:
C M Grieve, pseudonym Hugh MacDiarmid
Neil M Gunn
Norman MacCaig
Iain Crichton Smith
Sydney Goodsir Smith
Douglas Young
Video tape of a recording of a poetry reading by Joy Hendry, Norman MacCaig, William Neill and Iain Crichton Smith.
Includes letters of Valda Grieve, Brian Merriken Hill, Henry Mair, William Neill and Jim C Wilson.
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