Author and play-wright. Born in Carntyne (Glasgow), the son of a stoker, Hind left Riverside Secondary School at the age of 14 to work as a clerk for an engineering firm but was called-up to serve in the medical corps at the end of the Second World War. Thereafter he was determined to write and enrolled in a literature evening class at the University of Glasgow, before going on to study writing for a year at Newbattle College in Midlothian under Edwin Muir (1887 - 1959).
His only novel The Dear Green Place was published in 1966 and won both the Guardian First Book Award and the Yorkshire Post Award for Best Book. This novel had a great influence on the work of James Kelman, William McIlvanney and others who wrote about working-class life in Scotland. He began a second novel, Fur Sadie, but this was never completed. He also wrote ten plays.
Hind was one of the founders of the Easterhouse Project, a short-lived but successful youth programme aimed at reducing gang violence. His portrait was painted by artist Sandy Moffat in 1968 and is now held by the National Galleries of Scotland.
