Eric Linklater

| birth_place = Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales | death_date = | death_place = Aberdeen, Scotland | education = Aberdeen Grammar School
University of Aberdeen | occupation = Writer, poet | genre = Military history, travel | awards = Carnegie Medal (1944) | spouse = | children = 4 }} Eric Robert Russell Linklater CBE (8 March 1899 – 7 November 1974) was a Welsh-born Scottish poet, fiction writer, military historian, and travel writer. For ''The Wind on the Moon'', a children's fantasy novel, he won the 1944 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association for the year's best children's book by a British subject. Provided by Wikipedia