honour. Callum Macdonald (1912–1999), publisher and editor of the literary magazine, Lines Review. After leaving the Royal Air Force in 1947, he and his wife settled in Marchmont, where they opened a small stationery and bookselling business. Ian Rankin, crime writer, best known for his Inspector Rebus novels. He lived in Arden Street before moving to Merchiston in 2003. Arden Street was also Rebus's own fictional home. J. K. Rowling, novelist and screen writer, best known for her Harry Potter books, lived briefly with her sister and brother-in-law in a flat at 140 Marchmont Road in 1993. A blue plaque marks the site. Marchmont in fiction Arden Street is home to Ian Rankin's fictional Detective Inspector John Rebus. In Muriel Spark's 1961 novel, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, the Marcia Blaine School for Girls is based on James Gillespie's High School. The title character is based on Christina Kay, a teacher at the school. Spark herself attended Gillespie's from 1923 to 1935. Pat McGregor, a character in Alexander McCall Smith's 44 Scotland Street series, lives in Spottiswoode Street in the novel Love Over Scotland Bibliography Cant, Malcolm Marchmont in Edinburgh Edinburgh: J. Donald, 1984. Cant, Malcolm Marchmont, Sciennes and the Grange Edinburgh: Cant, 2001. Edinburgh Council - Marchmont, Meadows & Bruntsfield Conservation Area Appraisal, 2006 References External links Bartholomew's Chronological map of Edinburgh (1919) Areas of Edinburgh