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James Buchan

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James Buchan, born in 1954, is a British novelist and journalist.

Buchan was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford, and began his career as a Financial Times correspondent, writing from the Middle East, Germany, and the United States.

His first novel, A Parish of Rich Women, received the 1984 Whitbread Book of the Year award. Other novels include Heart's Journey in Winter and A Good Place to Die (published as The Persian Bride in the United States). He also writes non-fiction, including Capital of the Mind: Edinburgh 1745-89 (US title: Crowded with Genius: Edinburgh's Moment of the Mind).

He is the grandson of John Buchan, the Scottish novelist and diplomat.