Born in Dundee, he spent his early childhood growing up in Fife. After going to school in Shrewsbury, England, he enrolled at Sandhurst for military training and was commissioned in the Black Watch. After serving in India and the Sudan in the years leading up to the Second World War. He was captured in St. Valery. Whilst serving as a prisoner of war, Mr Walker collected material for his best-selling novel The Pillar. Other novels followed, with two of them, 'Geordie' and 'Digby' being adapted into feature films.

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David Walker

Writer