Iain Blair

Iain Blair was a Scottish actor and author who, using the pen name Emma Blair wrote a series of romantic novels.

Blair was born in Glasgow and spent the first few years of his life there. His father died shortly after his birth, and following the death of his mother, when Blair was aged eleven, he moved to the United States to live with an aunt. He wanted to return to Scotland, however, and got a parttime job at age fifteen to save up for his fare home. After graduating a year later from West Division High School in Milwaukee he returned to Glasgow to begin work with an insurance company. But he quickly became bored with the job and he moved to Australia at seventeen where he worked as a proof reader on the Sydney Bulletin newspaper, and as a lifeguard at Sydneys South Steyne Beach.

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