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Lewis Grassic Gibbon

Died in 1935

James Leslie Mitchell was born in 1901 into a family of farmers in the Mearns, left school at sixteen for journalism, was dismissed for falsifying his expense claims, joined the army and then the air force, and served in the Near East. He wrote seventeen books in seven years, under his own name for those set in England and under another for those set in his home country. He died of peritonitis in 1935, aged thirty-three.

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