Ann Scott-Moncrieff
Ann Scott-Moncrieff, author, was a daughter of Major J. D. M. Shearer. She was born in Kirkwall, Scotland, in 1914. At one time she attended the University of Edinburgh, after which, in 1934, she married George Scott-Moncrieff, a Scottish novelist and topographer.
She contributed to the making of 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 in book form. Later appeared a volume of short stories, The White Drake and Other Tales. Her last book, Auntie Robbo, was published in the United States in 1940.
Ann Scott-Moncrieff died in 1943. She was survived by her husband and three children.
