Bill Findlay (writer)

[1][2] He worked as a lecturer in the School of Drama at Edinburgh's Queen Margaret University[3] and was a founder editor and regular contributor to the Scottish and international literature, arts and affairs magazine, Cencrastus.

[4][5] Born in Culross in Fife, Findlay attended Dunfermline High School and left home in 1965 to work as a civil servant in London.

He returned to Scotland in 1970 to attend Newbattle Abbey College, spending two years there before going on to Stirling University, where he graduated with a first class honours degree in English in 1976.

[14][15][16] In his review of the play, Andrew Latimer wrote "When Martin Bowman and Bill Findlay first translated Tremblay's text into fierce Glasgow-Scots, with all the care and political attentiveness required to succeed, something vibrant, globally resonant and deeply sociological was unlocked.

[25][1] Findlay was awarded a PhD in 2000 and held a readership in the School of Drama and Creative Industries at Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh.