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Scottish novelist and journalist (1944-2011).
Born December 19th, 1944 in Edinburgh, Kilmarnock.
Died December 8th, 2011 at 66 years old in London (stroke).
Death: something like birth, a natural mystery, elements that split and recombine. Not an embarrassing thing. Not an offense to reason, or our nature. Marcus Aurelius