About James Buchan
Born 1954. James Buchan is a British journalist, novelist, correspondent and writer.
James Buchan (born 11 June 1954) is a Scottish novelist and historian.
Biography Buchan is a son of the late William Buchan, 3rd Baron Tweedsmuir, and grandson of John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, the Scottish novelist and diplomat. He has several brothers and sisters, including the writer Perdita Buchan. Educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford, he began his career as a Financial Times correspondent, writing from the Middle East, Germany, and the United States. In 1986, Buchan married Lady Evelyn Rose Phipps, daughter of Oswald Phipps, 4th Marquess of Normanby. She died in 2018. He has three children and lives in Norfolk, England.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2001.
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