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James Leslie Mitchell

Born

in Auchterless, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

February 13, 1901

Died

February 07, 1935

Website

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Grassic_Gibbon

Genre

Literature & Fiction

Influences

Alexander Grey, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jean Baxter, Cuthbert Graham, H.G. ...more

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Scottish writer James Leslie Mitchell also wrote under the pseudonym of Lewis Grassic Gibbon.

Born in Auchterless and raised in Arbuthnott, then in Kincardineshire, Mitchell started working as a journalist for The Aberdeen Journal and The Scottish Farmer at age 16. In 1919 he joined the Royal Army Service Corps and served in Iran, India and Egypt before enlisting in the Royal Air Force in 1920. In the RAF he worked as a clerk and spent some time in the Middle East. He married Rebecca Middleton in 1925, with whom he settled in Welwyn Garden City. He began writing full-time in 1929. Mitchell wrote numerous books and shorter works under both his real name and nom de plume before his early death in 1935 of peritonitis brought on by a perforated ...more

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Average rating: 3.7 · 171 ratings · 24 reviews · 21 distinct works • Similar authors

	Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, James Leslie Mitchell 4.01 avg rating — 5,502 ratings — published 1932 — 79 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gay Hunter by James Leslie Mitchell, Lewis Grassic Gibbon (Pseudonym), Edwin Morgan (Introduction) 3.57 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1934 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Szenen aus Schottland 3.41 avg rating — 17 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Persian Dawns, Egyptian Nights 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cairo Dawns liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1931 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hanno: or, The Future of Exploration 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1928	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Conquest of the Maya 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Earth Conquerors: The Lives and Achievements of the Great Explorers 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Calends of Cairo by James Leslie Mitchell, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, MacDonald Daly (editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1931 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Image and Superscription 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1933	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Nurse!" Gay sat up, still dazed, but slowly awakening, in the lovely unaccustomed luxury of sheets. "I'm not mad, and I'm not ill, but I've been twenty thousand years away. And I haven't come back for gruel. Tell me: is there still some coffee left in the world?”
― James Leslie Mitchell, Gay Hunter

tags: coffee

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“We know that man's a fighting animal by nature, that cruelty's his birthright; and we also know that what keeps us in the pit as animals are the armies and armaments.”
― James Leslie Mitchell, Three Go Back

tags: animals, armaments, armies, cruelty, fighting, mankind, pacifism

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“Compton Mackenzie, who is getting quite Scotch (probably from now living so near Glenlivet), gave [Sunset Song] a column in the Daily Mail. The Mail! Oh Goddelpus! I as a good anarcho-communist shrivel up internally.”
― James Leslie Mitchell

tags: compton-mackenzie, daily-mail, glenlivet, sunset-song

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