Norman Harper (born 7 September 1957) is an author, book editor, journalist and broadcaster, and for 27 years was a writer, features editor, and latterly leader-writer and
columnist with the Scottish newspaper, the Press and Journal. He is the author of the successful Stronach book series and Spik o the Place, and co-author (with
Robbie Shepherd) of four anthologies of anecdotes relating to the
Doric dialect of the North East of
Scotland, published by
Canongate Books and
Birlinn as the Dash o Doric series.[1][2]
He was convicted of possession of indecent images of children at Aberdeen Sherriff Court on 28 February 2018.[3]