Anna ‘Nan’ Shepherd (1893-1981): Scottish Modernist writer and poet, academic
Anna ‘Nan’ Shepherd (1893-1981): Scottish Modernist writer and poet, academic She was born on 11 February 1893 in East Peterculter, a village on the North East coast of Aberdeen as the second child of John Shepherd, a civil engineer and Jane, known as Jeannie, who came from an established middle-class Aberdeen family. Anna’s older brother Francis, known as Frank, was born in 1890. The family moved to Cults not long after she was born and Nan despite travelling widely…
