Alistair MacLean
Alistair MacLean ( Scottish Gaelic : Alasdair MacGill-Eain * 21st April 1922 in Glasgow , † 2. February 1987 in Munich ) was a Scottish thriller - Author . He also wrote under the pen name Ian Stuart .
Life
MacLean was born in Glasgow to a minister. He grew up in the Highlands near Inverness and attended Hillhead High School in Glasgow. During the Second World War he served in the Royal Navy as a seaman in the Atlantic, the Mediterranean and, from 1945, in the Pacific. His claim that he was by the Japanese in captivity have been arrested and tortured, were designated by both his son and by his biographer as inventions during his alcohol addiction. After the war he studied English at the University of Glasgow , where he graduated in 1953 and henceforth worked as a teacher.
MacLean began writing at university. With short stories he improved his income and won a competition of the Glasgow Herald in 1954 with the short story Dileas . The editor asked him to write more, and this was followed by the novel The Men of Ulysses , based on his own war experiences. The book was a great success, and MacLean was soon able to devote himself to writing war and espionage novels. In the early 1960s, MacLean published two books under the pseudonym Ian Stuart to prove that the success of his books was solely due to his "good writing" and not his name. These two books also sold well. In the 1980s, MacLean was one of the most successful writers of his time, with 30 million books sold worldwide. In 1983 he was honored with an honorary doctorate from Glasgow University .
In later years MacLean had more and more alcohol problems , the sequelae of which he succumbed on February 2, 1987 in Munich. He was married twice and had three sons with his first wife.
Works
MacLean published 28 novels , a variety of other short stories, and two books on TE Lawrence and James Cook.
No. | year | title | original | Movie |
1. | 1955 | The men of Ulysses | HMS Ulysses | |
2. | 1957 | The Navarone cannons | The Guns of Navarone | The Navarone cannons |
3. | 1957 | The survivors of the Kerry Dancer | South by Java Head | |
4th | 1959 | Beyond the border | The Last Frontier (USA: The Secret Ways) |
Secret ways |
5. | 1960 | Night without end | Night Without End | |
6th | 1961 | Fear is the key | Fear is the key | Fear is the key |
7th | 1961 | Black hornet | The Dark Crusader (USA: The Black Shrike) * |
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8th. | 1962 | Rendezvous with death | The Golden Rendezvous (USA: Nuclear Terror) |
Rendezvous with death |
9. | 1962 | Satan's beetle | The Satan Bug * | Secret agent Barrett intervenes |
10. | 1963 | Zebra ice station | Ice Station Zebra | Zebra ice station |
11. | 1966 | The killer ship | When Eight Bells Great | The killer ship |
12. | 1967 | Agents die lonely | Where Eagles Dare | Agents die lonely |
13. | 1968 | Zenica Secret Command | Force 10 from Navarone |
The wild bunch of Navarone also Force 10 - The Special Forces |
14th | 1969 | Souvenirs | Puppet on a chain | The rats of Amsterdam |
15th | 1970 | Deadly fiesta | Caravan to Vaccarès | Duel in Vaccares |
16. | 1971 | The island | Bear Island | Bear Island in Hell of the Arctic |
17th | 1972 | The dream of the south | Captain Cook | |
18th | 1973 | A handful of earth for the winner | The Way to Dusty Death | The Way to Dusty Death |
19th | 1974 | Nevada Pass | Breakheart Pass | Nevada Pass |
20th | 1975 | Circus | Circus | |
21st | 1976 | Golden gate | The Golden Gate | |
22nd | 1977 | Sea witch | Seawitch | |
23. | 1978 | Goodbye California | Goodbye California | |
24. | 1980 | The Hell of Athabasca | Athabasca | |
25th | 1981 | River of horror | River of Death | River of Death |
26th | 1982 | Partisans | Partisans | |
27. | 1982 | Air Force One's flight to hell | Air Force One Is Down | Air Force One Is Down |
28. | 1983 | The blackmail | Floodgate | |
29 | 1984 | The secret of the San Andreas | San Andreas | |
30th | 1985 | Lonely sea / raging sea | The Lonely Sea | |
31. | 1986 | The Santorini shock | Santorini |
(*) Published as Ian Stuart
Alistair MacLean left some manuscripts for unfinished novels. Some of these manuscripts were edited, completed, and published by other writers:
- Alistair MacLean's Golden Revenge
- Alistair MacLean's Golden Network
- Alistair MacLean's Golden Girl
- Alistair MacLean's white sand
- Alistair MacLean's rendezvous.
- Alistair MacLean's The Rembrandt Deal
- Alistair MacLean's Time of the Assassins
- Alistair MacLean's Trail of Death (also Detonator - The Death Train )
- Alistair MacLean's Ventura
- Alistair MacLean's Three Days to Eternity
- Alistair MacLean's Codebreaker
- Alistair MacLean's The Men of Navarone
- Alistair MacLean's The Navarone Shock Troops
Hugh Miller:
- Alistair MacLean's Deadly Target
Web links
- Alistair MacLean in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Alistair MacLean in the catalog of the German National Library
- German-language Alistair MacLean fan page. Information on novels and films.
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- ↑ Jack Webster: Alistair MacLean: A Life. Chapmans Publishers, 1991, ISBN 1-85592-519-2 , P191 (Alternative title: Alistair MacLean: A Biography of a Master Storyteller .)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | MacLean, Alistair |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stuart, Ian (pseudonym); MacGill-Eain, Alasdair (Scottish Gaelic) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Scottish writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 21, 1922 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Glasgow , Scotland |
DATE OF DEATH | 2nd February 1987 |
Place of death | Munich , Germany |