Which one of these Scottish authors is better known as Lewis Grassic Gibbon author of “Sunset Song”?

Lewis Grassic Gibbon lived from 13 February 1901 to 7 February 1935 and was born James Leslie Mitchell in Auchterless in Aberdeenshire. He was a Scottish writer whose book “Sunset Song” is widely regarded to have been one of the best Scottish books of the 20th Century.

Mitchell began writing full time in 1929. He produced a steady output of journalistic and critical material as J. Leslie Mitchell but increasingly used the pen name of Lewis Grassic Gibbon (derived from his mother's maiden name) for his major works. It is under his pen name that Mitchell is best known.

Lewis Grassic Gibbon produced 17 full length books between 1928 and 1934. Best known of these was “Sunset Song”, published in 1932. Together with “Cloud Howe” (1933) and “Grey Granite” (1934) it formed his famous “A Scot’s Quair” trilogy, a gritty account of one woman's life in the north-east of Scotland before and after the First World War, later adapted as a TV series, a film and a stage play.

In 1934 he published a book written in collaboration with the poet Hugh MacDiarmid (the pen name of Christopher Murray Grieve) called “Scottish Scene”.

Lewis Grassic Gibbon died at the beginning of 1935, at the age of 34, of peritonitis brought on by a perforated ulcer. He was on the brink of literary success at the time, as his work was being read and appreciated by a growing audience following publication in the USA.