title: Ian Macpherson (novelist)
text: # Ian Macpherson (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), ISBN 9780862280635
  * Land of Our Fathers (1933)
  * Pride in the Valley (1936), ASIN B000ZLQB7K
  * Wild Harbour (1936), ISBN 9780862412340
  