Lewis Grassic Gibbon
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Lewis Grassic Gibbon was the pen name of James Leslie Mitchell (1901–1935), a Scottish writer born in Aberdeenshire and raised on a croft in Arbuthnott, in the Mearns, the farming country of north-east Scotland. He left school to work as a journalist in Aberdeen and Glasgow, and later served as a clerk in the army and the Royal Air Force, spending years in the Middle East. Settled in Welwyn Garden City in England, he wrote with extraordinary speed in the last years of his life, publishing novels, short stories, history and archaeology under his own name. As Lewis Grassic Gibbon he wrote the trilogy A Scots Quair, Sunset Song (1932), Cloud Howe (1933) and Grey Granite (1934), which follows Chris Guthrie from the farm to a small town and then to a city, in a prose shaped by the speech of the Mearns. He died of peritonitis in 1935, at thirty-three.
