Allan campbell mclean biography for kids

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