Alan Sillitoe

Alan Sillitoe (1928–2010) was an English writer and one of the so-called 'angry young men' of the 1950s, best known for his debut novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and the short story 'The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner.' Born in Nottingham to a working-class family, his honest and acerbic accounts of working-class life injected new vigor into post-World War II British fiction. Over his career, he wrote more than fifty volumes including novels, poetry, plays, essays, and children's books.