[7] He began writing full time in 1929, producing numerous books and shorter works under his real name and his pseudonym.

Literary figures who attented the ceremony included Edwin Muir, James Barke, Donald Carswell, John Malcolm Bulloch and the Scots language poet Jean Baxter.

When his ashes were interred at the cemetery in Arbuthnott on 23rd February, the Scottish literary community was represented by Nan Shepherd, Helen Cruickshank and Eric Linklater.

[8] Mitchell gained attention from his earliest attempts at fiction, notably from H. G. Wells, but it was his trilogy entitled A Scots Quair, and in particular its first book Sunset Song, with which he made his mark.

A Scots Quair, with its combination of stream-of-consciousness, lyrical use of dialect, and social realism, is considered to be among the defining works of the 20th century Scottish Renaissance.

All three parts of the trilogy have been turned into serials by BBC Scotland, written by Bill Craig, with Vivien Heilbron as Chris.

[11] In 1976 the BBC produced a Play for Today, Clay, Smeddum and Greenden, a dramatisation of three of his short stories by Bill Craig.

The Grassic Gibbon Centre, attached to the local village hall, was established in Arbuthnott in 1991 to commemorate the author's life.