Scottish writer and journalist
Harry Ritchie (born 1958) is a Scottish writer and journalist. He is the author of six books, and numerous newspaper articles and book reviews.
Biography.
Ritchie was born in Kirkcaldy, Fife. He attended Kirkcaldy High School and the University of Edinburgh, then studied for a D.Phil. at Lincoln College, Oxford. His doctoral thesis on the literary scene of the 1950s was published by Faber as the book "Success Stories" in 1988. His subsequent works are the comic travel books "Here We Go" and "The Last Pink Bits", the novels "Friday Night Club" and "The Third Party," and a book about English grammar, "English for the Natives" (John Murray).
Ritchie edited the anthology "New Scottish Writing", and contributed an essay to Nick Hornby's anthology of football writing, "My Favourite Year", about his lifelong passion for Raith Rovers, his hometown football club.
Ritchie lives in London with the journalist and broadcaster Tracey MacLeod.
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