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Lewis Grassic Gibbon was the
pseudonym of
James Leslie Mitchell (
13 February 1901 –
7 February 1935), a
Scottish writer.
Born and raised in
Arbuthnott,
Aberdeenshire, Mitchell started working as a
journalist for the
Aberdeen Journal and the
Scottish Farmer at age 16. In 1919 he joined the
Royal Army Service Corps and served in
Persia,
India and
Egypt before enlisting in the
Royal Air Force in
1920. In the RAF he worked as a clerk and spent some time in the
Middle East. He married Rebecca Middleton in 1925, with whom he settled in
Welwyn Garden City. He began writing full-time in
1929. Mitchell wrote numerous books and shorter works under both his real name and
nom de plume before his early death in
1935 of
peritonitis brought on by a perforated
ulcer.
Mitchell attracted attention from his earliest attempts at fiction, notably from
H.G. Wells, but it was his trilogy entitled
A Scots Quair, and in particular its first book
Sunset Song, with which he made his mark.
A Scots Quair with its combination of
realist narrative and lyrical use of
dialect is considered to be among the defining works of 20th century
Scottish Renaissance.
The
Grassic Gibbon Centre was established in
Arbuthnott in
1991 to commemorate the author's life.
Bibliography
- Hanno: or the Future of Exploration (1928)
- Stained Radiance: A Fictionist's Prelude (1930)
- The Thirteenth Disciple (1931)
- The Calends of Cairo (1931)
- Three Go Back (1932)
- The Lost Trumpet (1932)
- Sunset Song (1932), the first book of the trilogy A Scots Quair
- Persian Dawns, Egyptian Nights (1932)
- Image and Superscription (1933)
- Cloud Howe (1933), the second book of the trilogy A Scots Quair
- Spartacus (1933)
- Niger: The Life of Mungo Park (1934)
- The Conquest of the Maya (1934)
- Gay Hunter (1934)
- Scottish Scene (1934), with Hugh MacDiarmid
- Grey Granite (1934), the third book of the trilogy A Scots Quair
- Nine Against the Unknown (1934)
- The Speak of the Mearns (1982), published posthumously
In 1934 Mitchell collaborated with
Hugh MacDiarmid on
Scottish Scene which included three of Gibbon's short stories. These were collected posthumously in
A Scots Hairst (1969).
Mitchell's biography, by Iain S. Munro, appeared in 1966.
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