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Buchan, John
Scottish writer and politician. His popular adventure stories, today sometimes criticized for their alleged snobbery, sexism, and anti-Semitism, include The Thirty-Nine Steps, a tale of espionage published in 1915, Greenmantle (1916), and The Three Hostages (1924).
He was Conservative member of Parliament for the Scottish universities 1927–35, and governor general of Canada 1935–40. He also wrote historical and biographical works, literary criticism, and poetry. He was created baron in 1935.
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