Born in 1893, Anna ‘Nan’ Shepherd was a Scottish modernist writer and poet. Shepherd worked as a lecturer and later edited the Aberdeen University Review. A keen naturalist and mountaineer, Shepherd is best known for her non-fiction book The Living Mountain (1977; Folio 2021). Shepherd was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Aberdeen in 1964 and her image appears on the Royal Bank of Scotland five-pound note.