1901 -- 1935
Lewis Gibbon, one of Scotland's most famous authors, was born "James Leslie Mitchell" in Auchterless, Aberdeenshire in 1901. He was educated at the
local school in Drumlithie and then at Mackie Academy in Stonehaven, leaving at the age of sixteen so that he could work as a journalist for the Aberdeen
Journal and Scottish Farmer. 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.
Lewis moved to Welwyn Garden City in 1931, and died of a perforated ulcer in 1935. |
