Elizabeth Buchan

Elizabeth Mary Oakleigh-Walker was born on 21 May 1948 in Guildford, Surrey, Englandthe daughter of Major Peter Oakleigh-Walker. She obtained for a double degree in English and History at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Elizabeth married with Benjamin William Alastair Buchan (b. 1948), grandson of the also writer John Buchan, they had one son, Adam Peter Alastair Buchan (b. 1980), and a daughter, Eleanor Rose Buchan (b. 1983). She began her career as a blurb writer for Penguin Books, …