Scott McBain is a

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of a Scottish fiction

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. McBain was born in

Stirling Stirling (; ; ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city in Central Belt, central Scotland, northeast of Glasgow and north-west of Edinburgh. The market town#Scotland, market town, surrounded by rich farmland, grew up connecting the roya ...

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in June 1960. He lived in

Girvan Girvan (, "mouth of the River Girvan") is a burgh and harbour town in Carrick, South Ayrshire, Scotland. Girvan is situated on the east coast of the Firth of Clyde, with a population of about 6,450. It lies south of Ayr, and north of St ...

on the west coast of Scotland until 1969; he moved to England after his parents' divorce. He graduated from

Peterhouse, Cambridge Peterhouse is the oldest Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England, founded in 1284 by Hugh de Balsham, Bishop of Ely. Peterhouse has around 300 undergraduate and 175 graduate stud ...

, mastering in law. In the years from 1986 to 1987 he received a

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scholarship and studied at

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

. McBain lives in

Panama Panama, officially the Republic of Panama, is a country in Latin America at the southern end of Central America, bordering South America. It is bordered by Costa Rica to the west, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north, and ...

and is married to a local.

Work

*''The Mastership Game'' (2000), *''The Coins of Judas'' (2001), * ''The Final Solution'' (2005), HarperCollins, London, no release to date, ** German edition released as "Der Mastercode"

External links and references

http://www.harpercollins.com.au/authors/50015981/Scott_McBain/index.aspx?authorID=50015981 * http://www.authortracker.ca/author.asp?a=authorid&b=uk_3808 (Engl.) 1960 births Living people Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge Harvard University alumni Scottish writers People from Stirling {{Scotland-writer-stub