Robert Douglas Galbraith (28 October 1965 – 23 March 2018) was a Scottish historical novelist.
[1] He was educated at The Glasgow Academy and the University of St Andrews, where he read mediaeval history.
[1] After working in the wine trade, he was able to focus on writing after the success of his first novel, The Rising Sun, in 2000.
[1] The novel explored the Scottish trade expedition to Darien in 1698, which ended in financial ruin.
In 2003, when the boys were six and four, Galbraith returned from a meeting with his publishers to discover that Hanasaki had abducted them and taken them to Japan.