Lewis Grassic Gibbon

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Lewis Grassic Gibbon was the pen name of Scottish writer James Leslie Mitchell, best known for his modernist trilogy "A Scots Quair," which powerfully depicts rural life and social change in early 20th-century Scotland.

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instanceOf Scottish writer
novelist
person
alsoKnownAs J. Leslie Mitchell NERFINISHED
burialPlace New Cemetery, Auchterless, Aberdeenshire, Scotland NERFINISHED
causeOfDeath peritonitis
countryOfCitizenship Scotland
United Kingdom
dateOfBirth 1901-02-13
dateOfDeath 1935-02-07
educatedAt Mackie Academy NERFINISHED
employer Encyclopædia Britannica NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork historical fiction
social realism
genre Scottish literature
modernist literature
hasChild Lesley Mitchell NERFINISHED
Robert Mitchell NERFINISHED
hasPart Cloud Howe NERFINISHED
Grey Granite NERFINISHED
Sunset Song NERFINISHED
influencedBy rural life in northeast Scotland
languageOfWorkOrName English
marriedTo Rebecca Middleton NERFINISHED
movement Scottish Renaissance NERFINISHED
notableWork A Scots Quair NERFINISHED
Cloud Howe NERFINISHED
Gay Hunter NERFINISHED
Grey Granite NERFINISHED
Spartacus NERFINISHED
Stained Radiance NERFINISHED
Sunset Song NERFINISHED
Three Go Back NERFINISHED
occupation journalist
novelist
periodOfActivity 1920s
1930s
placeOfBirth Auchterless, Aberdeenshire, Scotland NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England NERFINISHED
primarySettingOfWork The Mearns, northeast Scotland NERFINISHED
pseudonymOf James Leslie Mitchell NERFINISHED
realName James Leslie Mitchell NERFINISHED
servedIn Royal Air Force NERFINISHED
Royal Army Service Corps NERFINISHED
subjectOf Lewis Grassic Gibbon Centre NERFINISHED
writingStyle modernist

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Scottish literature notableAuthor Lewis Grassic Gibbon
The Mearns hasLiteraryAssociationWith Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Scottish Renaissance notableFigure Lewis Grassic Gibbon