About Douglas Galbraith
Lived 1965 – 2018 (aged 52–53). Douglas Galbraith was a British novelist.
Robert Douglas Galbraith (28 October 1965 – 23 March 2018) was a Scottish historical novelist.
Early life Galbraith was born in 1965 to Alan and Judy Galbraith. He was educated at The Glasgow Academy and the University of St Andrews, where he read mediaeval history. they had two sons, Satomi and Makoto. In 2003, when the boys were six and four, Galbraith returned from a meeting with his publishers to discover that Hanasaki had abducted them and taken them to Japan. Despite his best efforts, Galbraith never saw his sons again, and they remain (2022) missing.
Galbraith was the uncle of the author and journalist, Patrick Galbraith, whose first book In Search of One Last Song (2022: William Collins) was dedicated to Douglas Galbraith.
Galbraith died in 2018, aged 52.
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Who was Douglas Galbraith?
Scottish historical novelist
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Douglas Galbraith was born in 1965.
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Douglas Galbraith died in 2018.
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Douglas Galbraith was a novelist.
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Douglas Galbraith was British.
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