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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), ISBN 9780862280635
• Land of Our Fathers (1933)
• Pride in the Valley (1936), ASIN B000ZLQB7K
• Wild Harbour (1936), ISBN 9780862412340

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, ISSN 0264-0856

References

1. "Macpherson, Ian (1905–1944), novelist". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/60214. Retrieved 20 May 2019. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
2. Baker, Timothy C. (September 2008). "Ian Macpherson's Writing of the Disaster". International Review of Scottish Studies. 33: 61–86. doi:10.21083/irss.v33i0.486.
3. "Authors : Macpherson, Ian : SFE : Science Fiction Encyclopedia". www.sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 20 May 2019.
4. "1001 Book Review: Wild Harbour by MacPherson". The Reader's Room. 13 March 2015. Retrieved 20 May 2019.

• Canongate Books
• 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, ABC Books, Sydney, 2006.

External links

• The Literature of Scotland @ Google Books

• 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