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Robert Aitken
1872–1929
A Scottish-born writer and traveler, he published fiction under the name Robert Aitken and is remembered for adventurous stories shaped by a life spent moving between countries and identities.
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The White Blackbird
by Robert Aitken
About the author
Born in Glasgow in 1872, Robert Aitken wrote fiction under a shortened form of his fuller name, Robert Aitken Swan. Reference sources identify him as a Scottish author who later legally adopted the name Aitken-Swan in 1921.
His books include Windfalls (1903), a collection of stories, and The White Blackbird (1912), a novel that helped keep his name in circulation with later reprints and digital editions. Catalog and bookselling records suggest his work often drew on far-flung settings and an interest in travel and colonial-era adventure.
He died in Mortree, France, in 1929. Reliable biographical information about his personal life appears to be limited, but the surviving record presents him as a minor early-20th-century novelist whose work still turns up in library catalogs and classic-literature archives.