James Milne

Born in 1865, James Milne was a Scottish writer whose career grew out of journalism. Sources describe him as educated at Strathdon and Aboyne, with further study at Edinburgh University, before he began work in the press.

He went on to found and edit Book Monthly in 1903, and from 1904 to 1918 served as literary editor of the Daily Chronicle. He also wrote for papers and magazines including the Daily Telegraph, The Scotsman, and Cornhill Magazine, sometimes using the pen names Eliot Buckram and Elijah True.

Milne wrote across several genres, which helps explain the range of books associated with him today. His works include The Gordon Highlanders, The Romance of a Pro-Consul, The Epistles of Atkins, My Summer in London, The Black Colonel, The Road to Kashmir, A Window in Fleet Street, and Printer's Devil; or, How Books Happen. He died in 1951.