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Brian Morton was born on 1954 in Paisley, Scotland, is a Scottish writer (born 1954). Discover Brian Morton's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 70 years old?
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Brian Morton Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Brian Morton's Wife?
His wife is Sarah Morton
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Brian Morton Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Brian Morton worth at the age of 70 years old? Brian Morton’s income source is mostly from being a successful Writer. He is from United Kingdom. We have estimated Brian Morton's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Brian Morton (born 1954) is a Scottish writer, journalist and former broadcaster, specialising in jazz and modern literature.
Born in Paisley, near Glasgow, and raised in Dunoon, Morton was educated at the University of Edinburgh and taught in the late 1970s at the University of East Anglia (under Malcolm Bradbury) and at the University of Tromsø in Norway.
Morton converted to Catholicism in 1984.
Morton's non-jazz books include translations from the Norwegian of Jonas Lie, Prince: Thief in the Temple (Canongate Books) and Shostakovich (Haus).
From 1992 to 1997, Morton was the main presenter of Impressions for BBC Radio 3, a fortnightly jazz and improvised music programme.
For more than a decade Morton was a familiar voice on music programmes and features on other arts related subjects on the London-based BBC networks.
He is also the author of The Blackwell Guide to Recorded Contemporary Music (1996), which covers modern classical music.
from the University of St Andrews, awarded on St Andrews Day, 2000, for services to Scottish broadcasting and cultural life.
For some years, he was one of the presenters and a producer of The Usual Suspects, Later, he hosted The Brian Morton Show on BBC Radio Scotland, until 2003 after criticising the BBC's arts coverage.
A biography, Miles Davis, was issued by Haus Publishing in 2005.
He is a long-standing contributor to The Wire and to the Catholic weekly The Tablet.
He is co-author, with Richard Cook, of The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (formerly ...on CD), whose ninth edition (undertaken single-handed following Cook's premature death in 2007) was published at the end of October 2008.
Morton was a frequent contributor to Jazz Review magazine, and was briefly editor in 2008; the magazine was absorbed by Jazz Journal in 2009, for which Morton has written.
A short biography of the writer Edgar Allan Poe appeared in November 2009.
Morton has been a 'Comment' columnist in the Scottish edition of The Observer newspaper and, like his American namesake, is an occasional contributor to The Nation magazine.
In 2011, Morton relocated to Kintyre, moving with his family into a small former monastery.
He now writes and farms with his wife, landscape photographer Sarah Morton.
Morton also has two older daughters from a previous relationship.
He is writing a biographical study of St Columba.
He holds an honorary D.Litt.