Ann Scott-Moncrieff

Ann Scott-Moncrieff (Shearer) (1914–1943) was an author who was the daughter of Major J. D. M. Shearer. She was born in Kirkwall, Scotland, in 1914. She attended the University of Edinburgh and married George Scott-Moncrieff in 1934, a Scottish novelist and topographer.

She contributed to BBC programmes, and her first published literary work was a children's story, Aboard the Bulger, which appeared as a serial in "The Bulletin" before its publication as a book. A volume of short stories, The White Drake and Other Tales, were created. Her last book, Auntie Robbo, was published in the United States in 1940.

Scott-Moncrieff died in 1943; she was memorialized in a poem by Edwin Muir. Her three children's books have been re-issued by Scotland Street Press.

New editions

 * Auntie Robbo (2019)


 * Aboard the Bulger (2020)
 * Firkin and the Grey Gangsters (2021) (original title—The White Drake and Other Tales)