Munro, Neil
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| born on | 2 April 1864 at 06:30 (= 06:30 AM ) | ||||
| Place | Inveraray, Scotland, 56n13, 5w05 | ||||
| Timezone | GMT h0e (is standard time) | ||||
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| Astrology data |   12°47'   13°50 Asc. 07°37'
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Biography
Scottish journalist, newspaper editor, author and literary critic. He was basically a serious writer but is now mainly known for his humorous short stories, originally written under the pen name Hugh Foulis.
A key figure in literary circles, Munro was a friend of the writers J. M. Barrie, John Buchan, Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham and Joseph Conrad, and the artists Edward A. Hornel, George Houston, Pittendrigh MacGillivray and Robert Macaulay Stevenson. He was an early promoter of the works of both Conrad and Rudyard Kipling.
He died in Craigendoran, Helensburgh on 22 December 1930.
Relationships
- friend relationship with Barrie, J. M. (born 9 May 1860)
- friend relationship with Buchan, John (born 26 August 1875)
- friend relationship with Conrad, Joseph (born 3 December 1857)
- friend relationship with MacGillivray, James P. (born 30 May 1856)
- friend relationship with Stevenson, Robert Louis (born 13 November 1850)
Events
Source Notes
Paul Wright quotes birth record. Sy Scholfield quotes "Neil Munro: the biography" by Lesley Lendrum (House of Lochar, 2004),p. 1: "He was born on 3 June, towards ten o'clock in the evening. He had a twin sister who was stillborn, but no other brothers or sisters." However Munro claimed to have been born in 1864: a footnote in the Wikipedia entry states that the 3rd June 1863 birth date is an incorrect date appearing in a number of sources.
Categories
- Vocation : Writers : Columnist/ journalist
- Vocation : Writers : Critic (Literary critic)
- Vocation : Writers : Fiction (Novelist)
- Vocation : Writers : Publisher/ Editor
