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Alistair MacLean (28 April 1922 – 2 February 1987) was a British author and Royal Navy veteran who served in World War II. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, he studied at the University of Glasgow. His literary career began in 1955, focusing on adventure fiction. He is noted for works such as *The Guns of Navarone* and *South by Java Head*. MacLean also wrote under the pseudonym Ian Stuart.
He resided in Switzerland and Daviot. MacLean had three children and spoke English. He died in Munich of a myocardial infarction.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 28 April 1922
- Died
- 2 February 1987
- Works
- 546
Top works
- דו־קרב במצולות ים
- South by Java Head
- South By Java Head
- South By Java Head
- South by Java Head
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Film & TV
Writing · Glasgow, Scotland
Alistair Stuart MacLean (Scottish Gaelic: Alasdair MacGill-Eain; 21 April 1922 – 2 February 1987) was a Scottish novelist who wrote popular thrillers and adventure stories. His works include The Guns of Navarone, Ice Station Zebra and Where Eagles Dare – all three were made into popular films. He also wrote two novels under the pseudonym Ian Stuart. [from Wikipedia]
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1922
- Active to
- 1987
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 108
- Total plays
- 2,304
Tags
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,756x
- Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2020 report of the Lancet Commission
· 2020 · cited 9,207x
- Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls
· 2007 · cited 7,929x
- UniProt: the Universal Protein Knowledgebase in 2023
· 2022 · cited 6,742x
- MIMIC-III, a freely accessible critical care database
· 2016 · cited 6,200x
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Quotes
- “"Foster always said that education was very important, but that it didn't really matter, because intelligence was more important than that, and that even intelligence didn't count for so much, that wisdom was far more important still. He said he had no idea in the world whether you had education or intelligence or wisdom and that it couldn't matter less, a blind man could see that you had a good heart, and the good heart was all that mattered in this world."”
- “The moment when a man hears that a girl's fiance has died only that day is the last moment that that man should ever begin to fall in love with her, but I'm afraid that's just how it was. The emotions are no respecters of the niceties, the proprieties and decencies of this life.”
- “Dr. MacDonald was a big heavily-built man in his late forties, with that well-leathered and spuriously tough look you quite often find among a certain section of the unemployed landed gentry who spend a great deal of time in the open air, much of it mounted on large horses in pursuit of small foxes.”
- “Every man is what environment and heredity make him.”
- “Nature wanted to show mankind, an irreverent, over-venturesome mankind, just how puny and pitifully helpless a thing mankind really is”
- “To all things an end, to every night its dawn; even to the longest night when dawn never comes, there comes at last the dawn.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1922-04-21 ) 21 April 1922, Glasgow , Scotland
- Died
- 2 February 1987 (1987-02-02) (aged 64), Munich , Bavaria , West Germany, (present-day Germany)
- Resting place
- Céligny , Switzerland
- Pen name
- Ian Stuart
- Occupation
- Author, teacher
- Language
- English
- Alma mater
- University of Glasgow
- Genre
- Thrillers Adventure
- Years active
- 1955–1986
- Spouse
- Gisela Heinrichsen ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1953 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1972 ) Mary Marcelle Georgius ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1972 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1977 )
- Allegiance
- United Kingdom
- Branch
- Royal Navy
- Service years
- 1941–1946
- Rank
- Leading Torpedo Operator
- Unit
- PS Bournemouth Queen (1941–1943) HMS Royalist (1943–1946)
- Conflicts
- World War II Battle of the Atlantic Mediterranean theatre South-East Asian theatre
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Encyclopedic overview
Alistair Stuart MacLean (Scottish Gaelic: Alasdair MacGill-Eain; 21 April 1922 – 2 February 1987) was a Scottish novelist, who wrote popular thrillers and adventure stories. His books are estimated to have sold over 150 million copies, making him one of the best-selling fiction authors of all time.
MacLean served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War, and his service aboard HMS Royalist formed the basis for his debut novel HMS Ulysses. Many of his novels have been adapted to film, most notably The Guns of Navarone (1957) and Ice Station Zebra (1963). In the late 1960s, encouraged by film producer Elliott Kastner, MacLean began to write original screenplays, concurrently with an accompanying novel. The most successful was the first of these, the 1968 film Where Eagles Dare, which was also a bestselling novel. MacLean also published two novels under the pseudonym Ian Stuart.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alistair MacLean” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.