Top Ten Most Iconic Authors in Scottish Literature

1 Walter Scott

2 Ian Rankin

3 Irvine Welsh

4 Val McDermid

5 Robert Burns

6 Alasdair Gray

7 lain Banks

8 Christopher Brookemyre

9 William McIlvanney

10 J. M. Barrie Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM (9 May 1860 – 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan.