:: About the Author

Margaret M. Dunlop was born in Glasgow to a Scottish father and an English mother. She is the fourth child of the five surviving children of this union. After leaving school in Glasgow she started work to contribute to the household income, but later she attended Hamilton College and Jordanhill College in Glasgow to obtain a Diploma in Education. This led her to become head teacher of a rural school in Lanarkshire. She also has an honours degree in English Literature and Philosophy from the Open University and, on impulse, became a member of Mensa.

As a child she loved to write short plays and songs to be performed by her cousins, brothers and sisters in front of the family. Her school compositions were often read before classmates as an example of how to write a good story. But despite the lifelong desire for writing it is only in recent years that she has found time for novel-writing. ‘Marching in Scotland, Dancing in New York’ is the first of these.

As part of growing up, she became familiar with all the celebrations, the triumphs experienced and tragedies endured by her extended family. The story was built on these memories, on the tales and gossips involving often larger-than-life characters and on the historical events of the time. She absorbed the goings-on played out between two large disparate families, one with Scottish ways and the other, the incoming English, with manners so different.

The author lives with her husband in Biggar in Scotland. She has two daughters and seven grandchildren.

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