*1936 GB, Glasgow
A.k.a. Marion Gibbons, née McChesney
M. C. Beaton (born 1936 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish popular and prolific writer of romance and mystery novels since 1979. She has also written under a number of other pseudonyms including: Ann Fairfax, Charlotte Ward, Helen Crampton, Jennie Tremaine, Marion Chesney, and Sarah Chester. As M. C. Beaton she has written the Agatha Raisin and Hamish McBeth series.