Margery Palmer McCulloch, who wrote this perceptive and sympathetic account in her own old age, did not live to see it published.
Margery Palmer McCulloch was an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow. She has written on Neil M. Gunn and Edwin Muir and co-edited the Scottish Literary Review from 2005 to 2013. A key collection of source documents Modernism and Nationalism (2004) was followed by a monograph on Scottish Modernism and its Contexts (2009). She co-edited Scottish and International Modernisms and the Edinburgh Companion to Hugh MacDiarmid (2011). She had just completed this long-researched joint biography of Edwin and Willa Muir, when she suffered a stroke in 2019 and died at the age of 83. She is survived by her husband the painter Ian McCulloch and their two sons, Neil and Euan.