biography
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| lived:
| (1905–58)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Torwoodlee, Scottish Borders, SE Scotland, UK. His novels include The World his Pillow (1933) and The Land of the Leal (1939), but he is chiefly remarkable for his devoted research on the life of Robert Burns, resulting in a five-volume cycle of novels (1946–54), an edition of Poems and Songs of Robert Burns (1955), and the posthumous Bonnie Jean, about Burns and Jean Armour. |
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