Novelist––The 39 Steps
Other Novels: Greenmantle, Mr. Standfast, The Moon Endureth, The Power House, Witch Wood, The Path of the King, The Island of Sheep, Space, and others
Awards: won the Stanhope Essay Prize in 1897 and the Newdigate Prize in the following year; Governor General of Canada, Commander-in-Chief of the Dominion of Canada
Education: Background: born in Perth, Scotland on August 26, 1895; studied at the University of Glasgow and Brasenose College, Oxford; died February 11, 1940 in Montreal, Canada