Naomi Mitchison

Naomi Mary Margaret Mitchison, Baroness Mitchison, born Haldane, lived from 1 November 1897 to 11 January 1999 and was a Scottish novelist and poet. She is often called a doyenne of Scottish literature and wrote more than ninety books, ranging across historical fiction, science fiction, travel writing and autobiography. Her husband Dick Mitchison received a life peerage in 1964, which entitled her to call herself Lady Mitchison, though she never did so. Her 1931 novel The Corn King and the Spring Queen is regarded by some as the prime historical novel of the twentieth century, and it remains the work most often named when her career is summarised.