- Lewis Grassic Gibbon
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name = Lewis Grassic Gibbon
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pseudonym = Lewis Grassic Gibbon
birthname = James Leslie Mitchell
birthdate = Birth date|1901|02|13
birthplace =Arbuthnott ,Aberdeenshire
deathdate = death date and age|1935|02|07|1901|02|13
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occupation = novelist
nationality = Scottish
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citizenship = British
period = 1928 - 1935
genre = general fiction
subject = Scottish country life
movement = 20th centuryScottish Renaissance
notableworks = The trilogyA Scots Quair , in particular the first bookSunset Song
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website = http://www.grassicgibbon.com
portaldisp =Lewis Grassic Gibbon was the
pseudonym of James Leslie Mitchell (13 February 1901 –7 February 1935 ), a Scottishwriter .Born and raised in
Arbuthnott ,Aberdeenshire , Mitchell started working as ajournalist for theAberdeen Journal and theScottish Farmer at age 16. In 1919 he joined theRoyal Army Service Corps and served inPersia ,India andEgypt before enlisting in theRoyal Air Force in 1920. In the RAF he worked as a clerk and spent some time in theMiddle East . He married Rebecca Middleton in 1925, with whom he settled inWelwyn Garden City . He began writing full-time in 1929. Mitchell wrote numerous books and shorter works under both his real name andnom de plume before his early death in 1935 ofperitonitis brought on by a perforatedulcer .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 ofdialect is considered to be among the defining works of 20th centuryScottish Renaissance .The
Grassic Gibbon Centre was established inArbuthnott 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), withHugh 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 posthumouslyIn 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.
External links
* [http://www.grassicgibbon.com/ The Lewis Grassic Gibbon Centre]
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NAME= Gibbon, Lewis Grassic
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=Mitchell, James Leslie
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Scottish writer
DATE OF BIRTH=13 February 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH=Arbuthnott ,Aberdeenshire ,Scotland
DATE OF DEATH=7 February 1935
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