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Kevin Williamson (born 1961) is a writer, publisher, and activist originally from Caithness. He is a Scottish socialist and republican and was an activist for the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP). He was also the architect of their radical drug policy, which included the legalisation of cannabis and the provision under the National Health Service of free synthetic heroin to addicts under medical supervision to combat the problems of drugs in working class communities.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Socialists want cafes for cannabis )〕 He wrote a regular weekly column, "Rebel Ink", for the Scottish Socialist Voice. ==Publishing career== In 1992 Williamson launched a literary magazine called ''Rebel Inc'' 〔("Rebel Inc - F * *k The Mainstream" ), ''BBC Online'', 27 January 2005. Retrieved on 2009-04-06〕 and through its pages was one of the first publishers of such Scottish writers as Irvine Welsh, Laura Hird, Alan Warner, and Toni Davidson. He has also championed such major Scottish writers as James Kelman, Duncan McLean, Gordon Legge and Alasdair Gray. In 1996 Williamson joined forces with Edinburgh-based Canongate Books to create the Rebel Inc imprint 〔("A Different Kind Of Classic" ), Joseph Ridgewell, ''The Guardian'', 18 October 2007. Retrieved on 2009-04-06〕 which, in the following five years, published almost sixty titles, mixing Scottish fiction with the international counter-culture and the politics of dissent. Within the Rebel Inc imprint Williamson re-published a series of out of print titles under the heading of Rebel Inc Classics that included writers such as Richard Brautigan, Alexander Trocchi, Charles Bukowski, Nelson Algren, John Fante, Knut Hamsun, Jim Dodge, Robert Sabbag and Jack London. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kevin Williamson (writer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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