Ian Macpherson (1905–1944) was a Scottish writer from Leslie Place, Forres, Moray,
Scotland
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. He graduated from
Aberdeen University
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in 1928 with a first-class honours degree in English. His first
novel
A novel is an extended work of narrative fiction usually written in prose and published as a book. The word derives from the for 'new', 'news', or 'short story (of something new)', itself from the , a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ...
, ''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 Scottish Renaissance (; ) was a mainly literary movement of the early to mid-20th century that can be seen as the Scottish version of modernism. It is sometimes referred to as the Scottish literary renaissance, although its influence went be ...
: The Reprinting of Scottish Fiction'', in ''
Cencrastus
''Cencrastus'' was a magazine devoted to Scottish and international literature, arts and affairs, founded after the Referendum of 1979 by students, mainly of Scottish literature, at Edinburgh University, and with support from Cairns Craig, then a ...
'' No. 9, Summer 1982, pp. 26 – 30,
References
Canongate Books* ''1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die'', ABC Books, Sydney, 2006.
External links
The Literature of Scotland@ Google Books
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1944 deaths
1905 births
Alumni of the University of Aberdeen
Scottish novelists
Motorcycle road incident deaths
20th-century Scottish novelists
Road incident deaths in the United Kingdom