Category
page 120th-century Scottish women novelists

Muriel Spark
Scottish novelist and writer (1918–2006)

Ali Smith
British author and journalist

Val McDermid
Scottish crime writer
Josephine Tey
Scottish author (1896–1952)
Naomi Mitchison
Scottish novelist and poet (1897–1999)
Jackie Kay
Scottish poet and novelist
Denise Mina
British crime writer and playwright
Marion Chesney
British writer (1936–2019)
Margaret Todd
Scottish medical doctor, schoolteacher and writer
Florence Dixie
noblewoman; British writer (1855–1905)
A. L. Kennedy
British author, comedian
Janice Galloway
Scottish writer
Manda Scott
British writer
Isabella Fyvie Mayo
Scottish poet, novelist, reformer (1843–1914)
Sharman Macdonald
Scottish playwright
Nan Shepherd
(1893 - 1981), Scottish novelist, poet, educator

Margaret Elphinstone
British writer
Emily Gerard
British-Austrian writer
D. E. Stevenson
British writer (1892–1973)
Shena Mackay
British writer
Catherine Carswell
British writer (1879–1946)
Sheila Burnford
British-Canadian writer
Sarah Broom Macnaughtan
Scottish novelist
Frances Murray
Scottish writer (1928–2019)

Zoë Strachan
British journalist

Muriel Gray
Scottish journalist, producer and actress
Dorothy Dunnett
British writer (1923–2001)