James Douglas
1929 – 2016
James Douglas is the pseudonym used by Douglas Jackson the popular Scottish writer best known for the writing of historical fiction. Born Douglas Jackson and christened James Douglas Jackson, he uses the pen name James Douglas, when writing mystery thrillers. His first novel as James Douglas was the 2011 published title The Doomsday Testament. Before becoming a major historical fiction writer, he had toyed around with the idea of writing mystery thrillers and even has several crime books on his computer that he intended to publish someday. He had always been a creative person who hated structured environments, which perhaps explains why he quit school at the age of 16 even before he could take his final exams. Taking up odd jobs, the most significant of which was restoring old Roman era monuments in Cheviot Hills, the young Douglas never thought he would ever amount to anything. Nonetheless, as a self-proclaimed admirer of the Black Douglas more formally known as Sir James Douglas his namesake, who had huge land holdings in Jedburgh his hometown, it was only a matter of time before he made something of himself.