the
GEORGE MACKAY BROWN website
A
Marvellous Journey
A peedie look at the life and
work of GMB
Life and Work of GMB
and Snapshots on the way
| Life and Work ~ Index |
| The Eternal Present of
Boyhood 1921 - 1940 GMB's childhood in Stromness |
| Now Things are Happening 1940 - 1952 death of GMB's father, tuberculosis diagnosis, first poetry, becoming Stromness Correspondent for The Orkney Herald, interview for Newbattle College |
| Rising and Falling 1951 - 1969 Newbattle College and Edinburgh University, death of oldest brother, Hugh, first collections of poems and short stories published |
| Long Distance Running 1970's and 1980's first novel, first meeting with Peter Maxwell Davies, publishing success continues, becoming a pensioner, Shetland |
| Towards Green April Harps 1990's ageing process, writing undiminished, death in April 1996 posthumous publications by the literary executors |
| Snapshots ~ Index |
| A Fountain of Endless
Cheerfulness Mary Jane Mackay Brown, GMB's mother |
| A Man of Wit and Wisdom John Brown, GMB's father |
| Flavour of the Week A boy's week in 1930's Stromness |
| Making Marks GMB on writing |
| The Complexity of an
Ordinary Person aspects of life outside writing and how they affected his work covering the period 1960 - 1989 approx. includes alcohol, conversion to Roman Catholicism, collaboration with Peter Maxwell Davies, friends, health, travel. |
| Flitting GMB's houses and his views on moving house |