Bill Malcolm

I have exercised my passion for the life and work of James Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon with the energy of a doomed obsessive, which has yielded two English degrees, four decades of academic research, six books, a slew of articles and media appearances and over thirty years of service as Literary Adviser to the Grassic Gibbon Centre, culminating in the award in 2017 of Honorary Fellowship of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies and appointment in 2018 as joint administrator of the Mitchell Literary Estate. My missionary zeal is now climaxing with publication of two major volumes by Jetstone Books, authorised by Mitchell’s family. The first, A Professional Writer-Cratur, a comprehensive miscellany of Mitchell’s secondary writings due in 2026, has been overtaken by Mitchell’s full biography, History of a Revoluter, published in May of 2025. I’ll jump at any chance to share my passion for Scotland’s Favourite Author with any agreeable gathering and to explain why in the twenty-first century Mitchell has become a key figure in Scottish, British and European literature.