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Margaret Moyes Black
1853–1935
A Scottish novelist and biographer who wrote with a strong sense of place, she published fiction under the pseudonym M.B. Fife and also wrote literary lives for popular readers.
1 Audiobook
Robert Louis Stevenson
by Margaret Moyes Black
About the author
Born in Fife in 1853, Margaret Moyes Black became known as a Scottish novelist and biographer. She published her first novel, In Glenoran, under the pen name M.B. Fife, a detail often noted alongside her work.
She also wrote nonfiction, including a volume on Robert Louis Stevenson for the Famous Scots Series, showing an interest in bringing literary figures to a broad audience. Her writing career moved between storytelling and biography, which gives her work a nice range for readers exploring late Victorian and early 20th-century Scottish literature.
Black never married, and she died in Montrose, Angus, in 1935. Reliable image sources located for this search did not provide a clear usable portrait, so no profile image is included here.