Alan Sillitoe (born March 4, 1928) is an English writer, one of the "Angry Young Men" of the 1950s. March 4 is the 63rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (64th in leap years). ... 1928 was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Angry Young Men (or Angries for short) is a journalistic catchphrase applied to a number of British playwrights and novelists from the mid-1950s. ... // Events and trends The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the height of the baby-boom from returning...

Sillitoe was born in Nottingham, to working class parents. His father worked, like the hero of his first novel, in the Raleigh factory, and was abusive towards his children. Nottingham is a city located in Nottinghamshire, in the East Midlands of England. ... The term working class is used to denote a social class. ... See also Raleigh, North Carolina and Sir Walter Raleigh. ...

Joining the Royal Air Force in 1946, Sillitoe was then posted to Malaya where he contracted Tuberculosis. Whilst hospitalised for treatment, he developed a taste for reading and writing, which he was to pursue on discharge in 1949. The Royal Air Force (often abbreviated to RAF) is the air force branch of the UK Armed Forces. ... 1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Tuberculous lungs show up on an X-ray image Tuberculosis is an infection with the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which most commonly affects the lungs (pulmonary TB) but can also affect the central nervous system (meningitis), lymphatic system, circulatory system (miliary TB), genitourinary system, bones and joints. ... 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ...

Whilst living in Spain with his lover, American poet Ruth Fainlight, in 1955, Sillitoe commenced work on Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, which was published in 1958. Influenced in part by the stripped down prose of Hemingway, the book attempts to convey the attitudes and situation of a young factory worker (Arthur Seaton) faced with the inevitable end of his youthful philandering. It was adapted as a film by Karel Reisz in 1960, with Albert Finney as Arthur Seaton. 1955 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is a British novel by Alan Sillitoe (his first, in 1958), a film starring Albert Finney, directed by Karel Reisz, adapted from the novel by its author, and later, in 1964, a success as a stage play, adapted by David Brett for the Nottingham Playhouse... 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ernest Hemingway, 1950. ... Karel Reisz (born 1926, Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, died London, United Kingdom, 2002) was a Jewish refugee who became one of the most important film-makers in post war Britain. ... 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Albert Finney Albert Finney (born 9 May 1936) is a British actor. ...

His story The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, which concerns the rebellion of a borstal boy with a talent for running, won the Hawthornden Prize in 1959. It was also adapted into a film, this time directed by Tony Richardson, and starring Tom Courtenay (1962). In the United Kingdom, a Borstal was a juvenile detention centre, prison or reformatory, an institution of the criminal justice system, intended to reform delinquent youths aged between about 16 and 21. ... The Hawthornden Prize is a British literary award. ... Tony Richardson (June 5, 1928 - November 14, 1991) was a British director. ... Tom Courtenay (pronounced Courtney) (born February 25, 1937) is a British actor who came to prominence in the early 1960s with a succession of critically-acclaimed films including The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962), Billy Liar (1963) and Dr. Zhivago (1965). ... 1962 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...

In 1990, he was awarded an honorary degree from Nottingham Trent University. 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Arkwright Building Nottingham Trent University (NTU) is a university in Nottingham, England. ...

Sillitoe has written many more novels, and several volumes of poetry, listed below. His 1995 autobiography Life Without Armour was critically acclaimed on publication, and offers a view into his squalid childhood. 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Novels

• Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958)
• The General (1960)
• Key to the Door (1961)
• The Death of William Posters (1965)
• A Tree on Fire (1967)
• A Start in Life (1970)
• Travels in Nihilon (1971)
• Raw Material (1972)
• The Flame of Life (1974)
• The Widower's Son (1976)
• The Storyteller (1979)
• Her Victory (1982)
• The Lost Flying Boat (1983)
• Down from the Hill (1984)
• Life Goes On (1985)
• Out of the Whirlpool (1987)
• The Open Door (1989)
• Last Loves (1990)
• Leonard's War (1991)
• Snowstop (1993)
• The Broken Chariot (1998)

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is a British novel by Alan Sillitoe (his first, in 1958), a film starring Albert Finney, directed by Karel Reisz, adapted from the novel by its author, and later, in 1964, a success as a stage play, adapted by David Brett for the Nottingham Playhouse... The General is a name which has been applied to several things: The General (novel): a novel by CS Forester which tells the tale of an English army officer and the Great War The General series: a series of science fiction novels by S.M. Stirling The General (magazine): a... material is the substance or matter from which something is or can be made, or also items needed for doing or creating something. ... The Storyteller is a television series devised and produced by Jim Henson, and first aired in 1988. ... The television series Life Goes On aired on ABC from 1989 to 1993. ...

Collections of Stories

• The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1959)
• The Ragman's Daughter (1963)
• Guzman, Go Home (1968)
• Men, Women and Children (1973)
• The Second Chance (1981)
• The Far Side of the Street (1988)
• Alligator Playground (1997)

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner is a short story by Alan Sillitoe, as well as the name of the collection in which the story has been published. ...

Collections of Poems

• The Rats and Other Poems (1960)
• A Falling Out of Love (1964)
• Love in the Environs of Voronezh (1968)
• Storm and Other Poems (1974)
• Snow on the North Side of Lucifer (1979)
• Sun before Departure (1984)
• Tides and Stone Walls (1986)