Sir Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott was born in Edinburgh in 1771 and raised on the legends, ballads, and history of the Scottish borderlands that would fuel his literary imagination. After training as a lawyer, he first achieved fame as a poet with works like The Lay of the Last Minstrel and The Lady of the Lake before turning to prose fiction. Beginning with Waverley in 1814, he published his novels anonymously, becoming the most popular and commercially successful author in the English-speaking world. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by Ivanhoe.