Andrew Lang - The Orange Fairy Book: "For, as I told you, Good deeds bear their own fruit!"

Andrew Lang was born in Selkirk on 31st March 1844. He was the eldest of eight children.

Lang was educated at Selkirk Grammar School, Loretto, and at the Edinburgh Academy, St Andrews University and finally Balliol College, Oxford, where he took a first class in the final classical schools in 1868, becoming a fellow and subsequently honorary fellow of Merton College.

He was first published in 1863 and from then on was a prolific writer and editor. Although mainly known for his Fairy Books he ...