
Ann Scott-Moncrieff, née Shearer (1914 - 1943) was a Scottish journalist and author. She was born in Kirkwall in 1914, a daughter of Major J.D.M. Shearer. 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.