About Ian Macpherson
Lived 1905 – 1944 (aged 38–39). Ian Macpherson was a novelist.
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),
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Who was Ian Macpherson?
British writer
When was Ian Macpherson born?
Ian Macpherson was born in 1905.
When did Ian Macpherson die?
Ian Macpherson died in 1944.
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Ian Macpherson was a novelist.
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