Donald A. Mackenzie

Donald Alexander Mackenzie (1873–1936) was a Scottish journalist and writer on mythology and folklore. Born in Cromarty, he worked on newspapers in Glasgow, Dundee and Edinburgh while producing a series of popular books on the myths of the ancient world, including Teutonic Myth and Legend, Egyptian Myth and Legend, Indian Myth and Legend, Myths of Babylonia and Assyria (1915), Myths of Crete and Pre-Hellenic Europe and Myths of China and Japan. He also wrote on Scottish folklore and on the migration of symbols, and he published verse. His books, clearly written and drawing on the scholarship of their day, were widely read.