Deirdre Chapman

Born in Carnoustie, Angus in 1936, Deirdre Chapman was working as a journalist from the age of nineteen – feature writer, columnist, TV critic, book reviewer and travel writer. Her short stories have been published in several volumes – and she served on the Literature Committee of the Scottish Arts Council and on various related committees concerned with the development and widening of readership.

As Hugh MacDiarmid’s daughter-in-law, she has been contributing biographical forewords as well as first-hand glimpses of MacDiarmid’s life for ongoing research, since her husband Michael died in 1995.

She and Michael had three sons who, with the help of their wives, have provided six grandchildren. She lives in Glasgow and has spent much of the past three decades on the Greek island which lent the scenic and atmospheric background to her novel, The Noontide Sun.