Alanna Knight MBE (24 February 1923 – 2 December 2020), born Gladys Allan Cleet, was a British writer, based in Edinburgh.
She wrote over sixty novels, including romances, mysteries, crime, historical, and time travel stories, as well as plays, biographies, and histories.
[1] In 1964, in her forties, Knight became paralysed by polyneuritis (neuropathy), and her husband gave her an electric typewriter to help in her recovery.
[2] By the time the paralysis ended five years later, she had written her first novel, Legend of the Loch (1969).
[4] She taught creative writing and lectured on the topic in various settings, from universities to Bloody Scotland, a literary convention.