See Also: Sillitoe, Alan(encyclopedia)
Kay, Alan(encyclopedia)
Alan(dictionary)
Shepard, Alan(dictionary)
Paton, Alan(dictionary)
Turing, Alan(dictionary)
MacDiarmid, Alan G.(encyclopedia)
Lerner, Alan Jay(encyclopedia)
Emery, Alan(medicine)
Hovhaness, Alan(encyclopedia)

Sillitoe, Alan (sh)




born March 4, 1928, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, Eng.

English writer.

The son of a tannery worker, he worked in factories from age 14. Many of his later novels and stories are brash and angry accounts of working-class life, beginning with his successful first novel, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958; film, 1960). Perhaps his best-known work is the title story in the collection The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1959; film, 1962). His other works include the novels The Death of William Posters (1965), The Widower's Son (1976), and The Open Door (1989) and the story collections The Ragman's Daughter (1963; film, 1974) and Second Chance (1981).