# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-09-02T05:11:16.927Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Walter Scott was born 15 August 1771 in Scotland and spent his working life as an advocate, Clerk of Session, and Sheriff-Depute of Selkirkshire — law by day, literature by night. His narrative poems Marmion (1808) and The Lady of the Lake (1810) made his name, but the Waverley novels (1814–1831) made his century: for nearly a hundred years they were among the most popular and widely read novels in Europe, and they shaped how American and European writers understood historical fiction. He moved through Edinburgh's Tory establishment, presided over the Royal Society of Edinburgh from 1820 to 1832, and served as vice president of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. He became a baronet of Abbotsford on 22 April 1820. He died 21 September 1832; the title died with his son in 1847.