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John MacDougall Hay (23 October 1880 – 10 December 1919) was a Scottish novelist.

He was born and grew up in Tarbert, Argyll. He graduated in 1900 with an M.A. from the University of Glasgow. He was initially a school teacher in Stornaway, but then became a Church of Scotland minister. He was the father of Sheena Campbell Hay (1911–1987) and George Campbell Hay, the Scottish Gaelic poet.

He is mainly known for his novel Gillespie (1914), set in a fictionalised version of his home town of Tarbert. It received favourable reviews when it was published in 1914, but was largely forgotten until it was re-discovered in the late 20th century. He also wrote a second novel Barnacles (1916), and a collection of poems Their Dead Sons (1918). In the year of his death, he was planning a third novel set in the Church of Scotland and to be entitled The Martyr.

In poor health for much of his adult life, he died of tuberculosis at the age of only 39.

References

1. ^ Fasti Ecclesiæ Scoticanæ: The Succession of Ministers in the Church of Scotland from the Reformation. Oliver and Boyd. 1920. p. 138.
2. Hay, J. MacDougall (1979). Gillespie. Canongate. ISBN 9780903937795; 1979 reprint of 1914 original.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link) MacDougall Hay, J. (1993). 2001 pbk edition. Canongate. ISBN 086241427X.
3. ^ Murray, Isobel; Tait, Bob. "Gillespie – J. McDougall Hay". canongate.co.uk. (brief biography)
4. "Review of Gillespie by J. MacDougall Hay". The Academy: A Weekly Review of Literature, Science, and Art. 86: 270. 28 February 1914.
5. Morton, Brian (26 May 2014). "Cannon Fodder (review of Gillespie)". Scottish Review of Books.
6. Hay, J. MacDougall (1916). Barnacles.
7. "Review of Barnacles by J. MacDougall Hay". The Review of Reviews. 53 (318). Horace Marshall & Son: 593. June 1916.
8. Royle, Trevor (27 January 2012). "John MacDougall Hay". In Flanders Fields: Scottish Poetry and Prose of the First World War. Random House. ISBN 9781780574325.

Further reading

• Böger, Silke (1989), Traditions in Conflict: John MacDougall Hay's 'Gillespie', Peter Lang, ISBN 9783631406304
• Pick, J.B. (1993), 'The Black Response: George Douglas Brown (1869-1901) and J. McDougall Hay (1881-1919)', in The Great Shadow House: Essays on the Metaphysical Tradition in Scottish Fiction, Polygon Cosmos, Edinburgh, pp. 59 - 65, ISBN 9780748661169

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