Lewis Grassic Gibbon
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| Born | James Leslie Mitchell 13 February 1901 Hillhead Seggat, Auchterless, Aberdeenshire |
| Died | 7 February 1935 (aged 33) Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire |
| Pen name | Lewis Grassic Gibbon |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | Scottish |
| Citizenship | British |
| Period | 1928–1935 |
| Genre | General fiction |
| Subject | Scottish country life Science fiction Historical novels |
| Literary movement | 20th century Scottish Renaissance |
| Notable works | The trilogy A Scots Quair, in particular the first book Sunset Song |
| Children | Rhea Martin |
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Lewis Grassic Gibbon was the pseudonym of James Leslie Mitchell (13 February 1901 – 7 February 1935), a Scottish writer.
Born in Auchterless, and raised in Arbuthnott in the former county of Kincardineshire, Mitchell started working as a journalist for the Aberdeen Journal in 1917 and later for the Farmers Weekly following a move to Glasgow. Around this time he was active with the British Socialist Party. In 1919 he joined the Royal Army Service Corps and served in Iran, 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 (known as "Ray") in 1925 and they 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 his 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 stream-of-consciousness, lyrical use of dialect, and social realism, is considered to be among the defining works of the 20th century Scottish Renaissance. It tells the story of Chris Guthrie, a young woman growing up in the north-east of Scotland in the early 20th century. All three parts of the trilogy have been turned into serials by BBC Scotland, written by Bill Craig, with Vivien Heilbron as Chris. Adittionally, Sunset Song has been adapted into a film (Sunset Song (film)), released in 2015.Spartacus, a novel set in the famous slave revolt, is his best-known full-length work outside this trilogy.
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