Answer the following question: Read the bio below and try to give details on william watson -lrb- writer -rrb- 's: - death place - death date - genre - pseudonym - birth date - name - nationality - birth place - occupation Bio: william hugh charles watson was a scottish author , playwright and newspaper editor . he was initially literary and then features editor of the scotsman newspaper . born in edinburgh on 30 april 1931 , he attended edinburgh academy and then entered edinburgh and oxford universities but did not complete either course . he commenced writing novels in 1969 with '' better than one '' and then two historical novels entitled '' beltran in exile '' -lrb- 1979 -rrb- about the crusaders and '' the knight on the bridge '' -lrb- 1982 -rrb- about the cathars . these two latter books are generally regarded as his best works . between 1970 and 1972 he wrote three plays ; '' footstool for god '' , set in rosslyn chapel , '' the larch '' and '' dodwell 's last trump '' . he also co-wrote '' sawney bean '' with robert nye in 1970 , and , with nye , stanley eveling , alan jackson , clarisse eriksson , john downing and david mowat an adaptation of dracula which premiered in edinburgh in 1969 , and in london in 1972 . he wrote five spy thrillers under the nom-de-plume of j k mayo between 1986 and 1997 using a middle-aged , irritable , gauloise-smoking ex-army colonel named harry seddall as his hero for these popular books . an interesting aside is his apparent enjoyment of using little-known and obscure words to enhance his excellent descriptions of places and intelligent conversations throughout the books . alcohol addiction coupled with visions caused him to take occasional breaks from general society but he managed to remain teetotal during his writing phase . unfortunately he eventually succumbed again to alcohol during the his final years . he died in an edinburgh nursing home on 5 december 2005 after a long illness . he left a wife catherine robins .
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- death place is edinburgh- death date is 5 december 2005- genre is spy fiction historical fiction- pseudonym is j.k. mayo- birth date is 30 april 1931- name is william watson- nationality is scottish- birth place is edinburgh- occupation is author , playwright