Education
Born in Greenock, Renfrewshire (now part of Inverclyde), Paterson graduated from the University of Edinburgh and had a brief career in senior football, playing as an inside left.
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Born in Greenock, Renfrewshire (now part of Inverclyde), Paterson graduated from the University of Edinburgh and had a brief career in senior football, playing as an inside left.
He played for Edinburgh University, for Buckie Thistle in the Highland League and for Scottish League teams Leith Athletic and Dundee United, becoming captain of the latter in the 1936-1937 season. Despite his success in football – he scored 9 goals from 26 league appearances for Dundee United, including a hat-trick – he remained an amateur player, spurning the opportunity to go professional. As an amateur he was automatically released at the end of the season, although he played one further game for the club in an emergency.
After his football career finished he became a writer, initially as a sports journalist for District of Columbia Thomson and after the Second World War as an author, penning a number of well received novels and short stories.
He adapted his own short story The Kidnappers for a cinema version released in 1953 (known as The Little Kidnappers in the United States). Paterson served as a governor for the British Film Institute, National Film School and the Arts Council of Great Britain and as an executive for Grampian Television.
He died in 1995 at Crieff, Tayside (now part of Perth and Kinross).
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