From Bannockburn to Flodden: Wallace, Bruce, and the Heroes of Medieval Scotland

About the author

WALTER SCOTT was a Scottish novelist, poet, historian, and biographer whose output spanned twenty-seven novels, five major works of epic poetry, three biographies, and fourteen histories, among other collections. His works include Ivanhoe, Rob Roy and Waverley.

Scott trained as a lawyer at the University of Edinburgh and served as Sheriff-Depute of Selkirkshire and Clerk of Session. He is recognized as the founder of the historical novel.

Scott spent his later years at his estate, Abbotsford, in Scotland, where he died on September 21, 1832. He was born in Edinburgh on August 14, 1771.