Scott McKenzie, born in Stirling and educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh where his life-long love of literature was kindled, joined the school's Pipe Band and Literary Society. Heacted in a dramatization of Huxley's The Devils of Loudun at the Edinburgh Fringe. A career in the Civil Service took him to London and Westminster where he draft ed numerous Bills for ministers. In Drochaid there is much evidence of his Scottish roots and upbringing.
