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David Toulmin

Born John Reid on a farm at Rathen in Aberdeenshire, David Toulmin was a farm labourer from the age of 14 and throughout his adult life. He would write short stories and character sketches in the local Buchan dialect, and his stories were later featured in local newspapers. He wrote ten books, but the first of these was not published until he was 59 years old. Blown Seed was his only novel.

The Elphinstone Institute runs an annual short story competition in his name, and the University of Aberdeen awarded Toulmin an honorary MLitt in 1986. Toulmin died in Aberdeenshire in 1998.

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