biography
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Gibbon, Lewis Grassic
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pseudonym of James Leslie Mitchell
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| lived:
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Auchterless, Aberdeenshire, NE Scotland, UK. Educated at Stonehaven Academy, he worked as a journalist in Aberdeen, and served in the RAF until 1929. He published the historical novels Three Go Back (1932) and Spartacus (1933) under his own name, but the three novels Sunset Song (1932), Cloud Howe (1933), and Grey Granite (1934), which form the trilogy A Scots Quair appeared under his pseudonym. |
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