William Sharp (12 September 1855 – 12 Desember 1905) adalah seorang penulis puisi dan biografi sastra Skotlandia. Sejak 1893, ia juga menulis dengan nama pena Fiona Macleod, sebuah pseudonim yang nyaris dirahasiakan sepanjang masa hidupnya.[1] Ia juga merupakan penyunting puisi Ossian, Walter Scott, Matthew Arnold, Algernon Charles Swinburne dan Eugene Lee-Hamilton.

William Sharp
Sharp pada 1894
Lahir(1855-09-12)12 September 1855
Paisley, Skotlandia
Meninggal12 Desember 1905(1905-12-12) (umur 50)
Bronte, Sisilia
KebangsaanSkotlandia
Nama lainFiona Macleod
PekerjaanPenulis
Suami/istriElizabeth Sharp
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  1. ^ Sharp's Death Solves Literary Mystery, NY Times, 15 December 1905
  • "William Sharp (Fiona Macleod): A Memoir" (1910, 1912) Elizabeth A. Sharp
  • William Sharp: "Fiona Macleod", 1855–1905 (1970) Flavia Alaya
  • The Sexual Tensions of William Sharp: A Study of the Birth of Fiona Macleod, Incorporating Two Lost Works, 'Ariadne in Naxos' and 'Beatrice'" (1996) Terry L. Meyers (Sharp's sexual orientation is a question still to be resolved, but some evidence in William Halloran's edition of Sharp's letters [see below] may corroborate the suggestions by Meyers that the creation of Fiona Macleod in some sense reflected a crisis in Sharp's sexual identity).
  • In Library of World's Best Literature Ancient and Modern, Thirty Volumes, Edited by Charles Dudley Warner, R. S. Peale and J. A. Hill, publishers, 1897. In Volume 6 is a section (pp. 3403–3450), devoted to Celtic literature, written by William Sharp and Ernest Rhys.

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