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Archibald Joseph Cronin - better known simply as A.J. Cronin - lived from 19 July 1896 to 6 January 1981.
He was one of the most commercially successful Scottish writers of the 20th Century. The wider picture in Scotland at the time is set out in our Historical Timeline.
Cronin was born in Cardross in Dunbartonshire.
He was an only child of a Catholic father and a Protestant mother, and was brought up by his mother as a Catholic after the death of his father.
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Religion was something that mattered more than it should have done in West Central Scotland at the time, and he talked years later of "A feeling of social inferiority... a sort of spiritual wound deriving from my religion."
He attended Dumbarton Academy and his obvious abilities won him a scholarship to study medicine at Glasgow University, where he met his wife, another medical student, Agnes Gibson.
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