Nigel Tranter, author, 90

["Deathwatch Central" <cdw@slick.org>]

GULLANE, Scotland (AP) - Nigel Tranter, a Scottish historian and novelist
who published more than 130 books, died Sunday. He was 90.

Tranter was bedridden with the flu for a week prior to his death, said his
biographer Ray Bradfield.

Tranter, one of Britain's most prolific writers, published novels,
children's stories and historical books over a career that spanned six
decades.

By 1935, he had published his first book, ``The Fortalices and Early
Mansions of Southern Scotland.'' He later referred to it during a lecture as
``a highly pretentious title.''

Tranter's first novel ``Trespass'' was published in 1937 while he was
working for an Edinburgh insurance company. He continued writing books at
the rate of one or two a year, even while serving in the Royal Artillery for
the duration of the World War II.

His early novels were adventurous romances but he also published 10 Westerns
under the pen name Nye Tredgold and wrote children's books.

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