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Ian Macpherson

Forres, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, 1905 - 1944

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About MeWith a reputation for his sensitive and insightful portrayal of the relationship between people and the land, Ian Macpherson has earned a place alongside Lewis Grassic Gibbon and Nan Shepherd as one of the great 20th century writers from the North-East.

Born in Forres, Ian graduated from the University of Aberdeen in 1928. For the next three years, he worked tirelessly on his first novel Shepherds’ Calendar. Largely autobiographical, the novel charts the adolescent development of John Grant, often compared to Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song, with its portrayal of a character on the cusp of adulthood in rural North-East Scotland.

Ian gave up a post-graduate place at the University of Cambridge in favour of life on a remote Speyside moor where he eked a living from the land to support his literary career. Wild Harbour was his final book and perhaps his most poignant. Written just three years before the beginning of the Second World War, the story shockingly foretells of a world destroyed by a future war.

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