Natural & raised within Aberdeenshire, he started working as a journalist for the Aberdeen Journal and the Scottish Farmer at age 16. Within 1919 he joined a Royal Army Service Corps and served in Persia, India and Egypt before enlisting in the Royal Air Force in 1920. In the RAF he worked as a clerk & spent a select few more period in the Middle East. He married Rebecca Middleton around 1925, with whom he settled in Welwyn Garden City. He began writing good-whale within 1929. He wrote many books & shorter works under two his rattling title & nom de plume before his early death around 1935 of peritonitis brought on by the perforated ulcer.

Although non recognised when you took andy skinner's lifespan, his trilogy entitled A Scots Quair and in particular its 1st book Sunset Song are considered to be among a shaping works of 20th century Scottish Renaissance.

A Grassic Gibbon Centre was established in Arbuthnott in 1991 to commemorate the authors life.

Bibliography

Hanno: or even a First of Exploration (1928) ''Stained Radiance: The Fictionist's Prelude (1930) A Thirteenth Adherent (1931) A Calends of Cairo (1931) 3 Last Back (1932) A Misused Horn (1932) Sunset Song (1932), the number one book of the trilogy A Scots Quair Persian Dawns, Egyptian Nights (1932) Image & Superscription (1933) Cloud Howe (1933), the 2nd book of the trilogy A Scots Quair Spartacus (1933) Niger: A Life of Mungo Park (1934) A Conquest of the Maya (1934) Gay Hunter (1934) Scottish Scene (1934), by using Hugh MacDiarmid Grey Granite (1934), the third book of the trilogy A Scots Quair Nine Against a Unknown (1934) A Speak of the Mearns (1982), published posthumously

Inside 1934 Gibbon collaborated sustaining Hugh MacDiarmid on [Scottish Scene]]'' which included three of Gibbon's short stories. These were collected posthumously in A Scots Hairst (1969).