Ian Macpherson

Ian Macpherson (1905–1944) was a Scottish writer from Leslie Place, Forres, Moray, Scotland. He graduated from Aberdeen University in 1928 with a first-class honours degree in English. His first novel, Shepherds Calendar, was published in 1931.The book depicts a young man's growth to maturity in a farming community dominated by hard toil and the influence of the seasons. Wild Harbour tells of the world destroyed by a future war, forebodings of which were already discernible in Europe. Macpherson died in a motorcycle accident in 1944. Novels Shepherds' Calendar (1931), Land of Our Fathers (1933) Pride in the Valley (1936), Wild Harbour (1936), Further reading Gifford, Douglas (1982), In Search of the Scottish Renaissance: The Reprinting of Scottish Fiction, in Cencrastus No. 9, Summer 1982, pp. 26 – 30,