Walter Scott, Scottish novelist, playwright, and poet (born 1771)

Walter Scott

Scottish novelist (1771–1832)

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, was a Scottish novelist, poet, and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature, notably the novels Ivanhoe (1819), Rob Roy (1817), Waverley (1814), Old Mortality (1816), The Heart of Mid-Lothian (1818), and The…