John Neil Munro, author of The Sensational Alex Harvey (Firefly Publishing, 2002) and Some People Are Crazy - The John Martyn Story (Birlinn Publishing 2007), was born in Campbeltown and grew up in Stornoway

Stornoway

Stornoway is a burgh on the Isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.The town's population is around 9,000, making it the largest settlement in the Western Isles and the third largest town in the Scottish Highlands after Inverness and Fort William...

, Isle of Lewis.
He studied Modern and Economic History at Glasgow University and then postgraduate journalism in Cardiff.