About Dixon Scott
Lived 1925 – 2022 (aged 96–97). Dixon Scott was a journalist and novelist.
Dixon Cowie Scott (c. August 1925 - October 2002 (age 77)) was an English journalist and novelist from South Shields, Tyne and Wear. His first novel, Jolly Jack Tart, appeared in 1974, inspired by his time in the Royal Navy and the Minesweepers.
In 1983, Heinemann published his sequel to Kenneth Grahame's 1908 novel, The Wind in the Willows, A Fresh Wind in the Willows, with illustrations by Jonathon Coudrille, which was published in the United States by Dell Yearling in 1987. By this point, he was living in Suffolk, England.
He worked for News of the World for 16 years.
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English journalist and novelist
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Dixon Scott was born in 1925.
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Dixon Scott died in 2022.
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Dixon Scott was a journalist and novelist.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Dixon Scott. https://biography.guide/dixon-scott/
MLA: "Dixon Scott." Biography.guide, https://biography.guide/dixon-scott/.
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