Stuart Kelly (literary critic)
Scottish critic and author
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Stuart Kelly is a Scottish critic and author. He is the literary editor of The Scotsman.[1]
Stuart Kelly | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Literary critic and author |
| Language | English |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
| Employer | The Scotsman |
His works include The Book Of Lost Books: An Incomplete Guide To All The Books You’ll Never Read (2005), Scott-Land: The Man Who Invented A Nation (2010) (which was longlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction[2]) and The Minister and the Murderer (2018). Kelly writes for The Scotsman, Scotland On Sunday, The Guardian and The Times. In 2013 Kelly was a judge for the Man Booker Prize.[3][4] In 2016/17 Kelly was president of The Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club.[5]
In October 2013, in an article that was published by The Mirror, Kelly claimed that 106 missing episodes of Doctor Who had been uncovered.[6] He claimed to have obtained this information from a friend, who told him the episodes were discovered in Ethiopia. As of 2025, no missing episodes have been found in Ethiopia.[7]