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Allan Campbell McLean was born on Walney Island, Burrow-in-Furness but spent most of his life in Scotland, It was expected that he would follow in his..
Allan Campbell McLean
British writer
Allan Campbell McLean (18 November 1922 – 27 October 1989)[1] was a British writer and political activist.
Biography
McLean was born on Walney Island, Barrow-in-Furness,[2] then in Lancashire, and educated at Barrow-in-Furness Technical School.[1] His father, a sheet-metal worker on the Clyde who had moved south to find work, was latterly a foreman at the Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering shipyards in Barrow.[1][2]
McLean served in the Royal Air Force in the Mediterranean and North Africa during World War Two, later writing about his experiences of time spent in a military prison in his 1968 novel The Glasshouse.[2] After the war he moved with his wife Mog to the Isle of Skye and turned his hand to writing.[2] In addition to his published novels he also earned a living as a journalist, and in the 1970s wrote a column for the short-lived publication 7 Days, wh