![]() There is now a Lewis Grassic Gibbon Centre in Arbuthnott. He worked himself to death, and was already signed up to his publishers to write a further million words when he died. ![]() Gibbon had an acute sense of social perception and was also remarkably prolific, writing 17 books in just seven years under both his pseudonym and his own name. Even his mother regarded him with suspicion, constantly deprecating his success and encouraging him to "get a proper job". His writing made him most unpopular in the Mearns across the social spectrum, where even the working people regarded their exposure in his books with embarrassment. 13, 1901, Hillhead of Segget, Auchterless, Aberdeenshire, Scot.died Feb. His communist sympathies ensured his books criticised the land-owners and the clergy. Lewis Grassic Gibbon, pseudonym of James Leslie Mitchell, (born Feb. Lewis Grassic Gibbon galvanized the Scottish literary scene in 1932 with Sunset Song, a novel that drew vividly upon his upbringing in a croft in rural. ![]() His writing was rooted in the local area of his birth, known as The Mearns, in what had been the old county of Kincardineshire. He left to work as a journalist in Aberdeen, Glasgow then London, before settling in Welwyn Garden City (Hertfordshire). Born on the farm of Hillhead of Seggat near Kirktown of Auchterless ( Aberdeenshire), before moving with his family to Arbuthnott. ![]() Journalist turned author, best known for his trilogy " Sunset Song", " Cloud Howe" and " Grey Granite". ![]()
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