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Lewis Grassic Gibbon

Lewis Grassic Gibbon
(1901—1935)

Writer

James Leslie Mitchell is best remembered for the trilogy A Scots Quair, written under the pen-name of Lewis Grassic Gibbon. These deeply symbolic works — Sunset Song, Cloud Howe and Grey Granite — took an innovative and evocative look at the land and the upheaval of the country way of life.

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