John Fowler has been a feature writer, leader writer and columnist for several newspapers in Scotland and has also worked in radio. For fourteen years as Arts Editor for The Herald. He has written several plays, notably Whaur's Yer Willie Wallace Noo? and a number of books, including Have You Seen the Glories? about his experiences climbing hills at home and abroad, and Landscapes and Lives, in which he describes the trees and fluctuating forest cover of Scotland through the ages and their influence on people.