Gunn, Neil Miller (1891–1974)

Scottish novelist. His first novel, Grey Coast (1926), at once brought him recognition and was followed by a series of others including The Lost Glen (1932), Butcher's Broom (1934), Wild Geese Overhead (1939), Highland River (1937) (Tait Black Memorial Prize), and The Silver Darlings (1941).

Gunn excelled in depicting the ordinary life and social and economic history of the Scottish Highlands, and in interpreting the folk wisdom and psychology of the Celts.

He was born in Dunbeath, Caithness, and worked in the civil service from 1906–37.