Biography EssayAlan Sillitoe had no plans for becoming a writer; writing seemed a most unlikely, even "inconceivable" career for a factory worker raised in the industrial town of Nottingham, England. ...
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Alan Sillitoe had no plans for becoming a writer; writing seemed a most unlikely, even "inconceivable" career for a factory worker raised in the industrial town of Nottingham, England. Despite, or per...
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When Alan Sillitoe's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning was published in 1958, critics grouped the author with John Wain, Kingsley Amis, and John Braine as angry young men. The label is not entirely ap...
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[This entry was updated by Jennifer Semple Siegel (York College of Pennsylvania) from her entry in DLB 139: British Short-Fiction Writers, 1945-1980, and from the entry by Catherine Smith in the Conci...
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