Fred Urquhart

Fred Urquhart or Frederick Burrows Urquhart (12 July 1912 – 2 December 1995) was a Scottish short story writer, novelist, editor and reviewer. He is considered Scotland's leading short story writer of the 20th century.

Early life Urquhart was born in Edinburgh. He spent much of his childhood in Fife, Perthshire and Wigtownshire. and of Norah Hoult.

Urquhart died in Haddington, East Lothian at the age of 83.

Selected bibliography Novels Time Will Knit (Duckworth, 1938) The Ferret was Abraham's Daughter (Methuen, 1949) Jezebel's Dust (Methuen,1951) Palace of Green Days (Quartet Books, 1979)

Short story collections I Fell for a Sailor (Duckworth, 1940; Kennedy & Boyd, 2011) Selected Stories ( Maurice Fridberg, 1946) The Clouds are Big with Mercy (William MacLellan, 1946; Kennedy & Boyd, 2011) The Last GI Bride Wore Tartan (Serif Books of Edinburgh, 1947; Kennedy & Boyd, 2022) The Year of the Short Corn and Other Stories (Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1949; Kennedy & Boyd, 2013) The Last Sister (Methuen, 1950) The Laundry Girl and the Pole (Arco, 1955) Dying Stallion: The Collected Stories, Vol. 1 (Rupert Hart-Davis, 1967) The Ploughing Match: The Collected Stories, Vol. 2 (Rupert Hart-Davis,1968) Proud Lady in a Cage (Paul Harris Publishing, 1980) Seven Ghosts in Search (Kimber / HarperCollins Distribution, 1983; Kennedy & Boyd, 2014) A Diver in China Seas (Quartet Books, 1980; Kennedy & Boyd, 2017) Full Score: Short Stories (Aberdeen University Press, 1989) A Goal for Miss Valentino (Kennedy & Boyd, 2014)

Writings in anthologies The Unlikely Ghosts (Mayflower Books, 1969) Ten Modern Scottish Stories. Robert Millar, ed. (Heinemann Educational Books, 1973) Scottish Short Stories 1974. (Harper Collins, 1974). Further Modern Scottish Stories. Robert Millar and John Thomas Low, editors. (Heinemann Educational Books, 1976) Scottish Ghost Stories. Giles Gordon, ed. (Lomond Books, 1976) As I Remember: Ten Scottish Authors recall How Writing Began for Them. Maurice Lindsay, ed. (Robert Hale & Company, 1979) "Lillie Langtry’s Silver Cup". The Fourth Book of After Midnight Stories ( William Kimber & Co Ltd, 1988) "Introduction," Creepy Stories (Bracken Books, 1994)

Writings in magazines "Cristopher Rush: Peace Comes Dropping Slow." The Scottish Review of Books, no. 31, 1983 "Cooee' Cried the Parrot" Cencrastus, no. 44, 1993.

Compiler or editor No Scottish Twilight: New Scottish Stories. (William Maclellan, 1947) W.S.C. A Cartoon Biography (Cassell & Company, 1955) Great True War Adventures. (Arco Publishers, 1956) Great True Escape Stories. (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1958). The Cassell Miscellany 1848-1958. (Cassell, 1958). Freeman, William. Dictionary of Fictional Characters. Revised by Fred Urquhart. (The Writer, Inc., 1974) Modern Scottish Short Stories (Faber & Faber, 1978) The Book of Horses (1981)