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Apr 30, 2010 · Alan Sillitoe, the novelist and poet whose death at the age of 82 was announced on Sunday, was one of the key cultural figures in Britain’s startling postwar social transformation.
Apr 25, 2010 · The novelist and poet Alan Sillitoe died today at the age of 82. In 2007, Sillitoe wrote a short piece for the New Statesman in which he described receiving a diagnosis of cancer: Whenever I began a book in the 1960s I wondered whether I’d finish it before the bomb dropped.
- Jonathan Derbyshire
Alan Sillitoe FRSL (4 March 1928 – 25 April 2010) was an English writer and one of the so-called "angry young men" of the 1950s. [3] [4] [5] He disliked the label, as did most of the other writers to whom it was applied.
Apr 25, 2010 · Alan Sillitoe, who died today aged 82, was part of a generation of working-class writers who shifted the boundaries of taste.
Apr 25, 2010 · Writer Alan Sillitoe, a leading figure of the so-called angry young men of British fiction and author of The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, has died at age 82.
May 10, 2010 · Sillitoe, who died April 25 at 82, possessed a rare ability to identify the lovable qualities in characters his readers might shun in real life. His two most famous creations were hard-drinking,...
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Apr 29, 2010 · Mr Sillitoe gave voices and identities to the street-crowds of post-war Britain, working in industries that were already dying, living for football and televisions on the never-never and Saturday...
