"Alan Sillitoe Alan Sillitoe (4 March 192825 April 2010) was an English writer and one of the so-called ""angry young men"" of the 1950s. He disliked the label, as did most of the other writers to whom it was applied. He is best known for his debut novel ""Saturday Night and Sunday Morning"" and his early short story ""The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner"", both of which were adapted into films. Sillitoe was born in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, to working-class parents, Christopher Sillitoe and Sabina (née Burton). Like Arthur Seaton, the anti-hero of his first novel, ""Saturday Night and Sunday"
"John Hampson (novelist) John Frederick Norman Hampson Simpson (26 March 1901 – 26 December 1955), who wrote as John Hampson, was an English novelist. Best known for his 1931 novel ""Saturday Night at the Greyhound"" – an unexpected success for the Hogarth Press – he was a member of the Birmingham Group of working class authors which included Walter Allen, Leslie Halward, Walter Brierley and Peter Chamberlain. His elder brother was the motorcycle racer, Jimmy Simpson (James Hampson-Simpson). Hampson was born in Handsworth in Birmingham. Unable to complete his formal education due to ill health, Hampson worked in a munitions"
"from a variety of sources (including Ford of Britain) and they each made a series of socially challenging short documentaries on a variety of subjects. These films, made in the tradition of British documentaries in the 1930s by such men as John Grierson, foreshadowed much of the social realism of British cinema which emerged in the 1960s with Anderson's own film ""This Sporting Life"", Reisz's ""Saturday Night and Sunday Morning"", and Richardson's ""The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner"". By 1964, the cycle was essentially over. Tony Richardson's ""Tom Jones"", Richard Lester's ""A Hard Day's Night"" and the early James"
"""The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner"" (1962); Reisz directed ""Saturday Night and Sunday Morning"" (1960); and Anderson directed ""This Sporting Life"" (1963) and ""If..."" (1969). Many of these films have also been categorized as part of the kitchen sink realism genre, and many of them are adaptations of novels or plays written by members of Britain's so-called ""angry young men"". Free Cinema Free Cinema was a documentary film movement that emerged in the United Kingdom in the mid-1950s. The term referred to an absence of propagandised intent or deliberate box office appeal. Co-founded by Lindsay Anderson, (though he later"
"the locality of their practice room in the Neepsend district of Sheffield. Other songs are themed on romantic relationships, such as ""Mardy Bum"", or youth subcultures, such as ""Fake Tales of San Francisco"" and ""A Certain Romance"". In ""NME""s list of the top 100 tracks of the decade, ""A Certain Romance"" was described as ""a strangely even-handed song which starts out scorning local townies then appears to absolve them at the end of the song."" The album's title was taken from a line from the novel ""Saturday Night and Sunday Morning"" written by Alan Sillitoe. The name was chosen after"
"about life in the mining valleys of South Wales. Harold Heslop, author of the novel ""The Earth Beneath"" (1946) was another coal miner, but from the north-east of England, as was Sid Chaplin, who wrote ""The Thin Seam"" (1949). Both Alan Sillitoe, ""Saturday Night and Sunday Morning"" (1958) and Stan Barstow, ""A Kind of Loving"" (1960), were working class writers associated with the so-called Angry young men; they were also linked with Kitchen sink realism, a literary movement that used a style of social realism. This often depicted the domestic situations of working class Britons living in cramped rented accommodation"
"Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. It was also #3 on ""Time"" magazine's top ten works of fiction from 2010. His latest novel, ""The Mark and the Void"", was one of ""Time""'s top ten best fiction books for 2015, and joint winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize in 2016. Paul Murray (author) Paul Murray (born 1975) is an Irish novelist, the author of the novels ""An Evening of Long Goodbyes"", ""Skippy Dies"" and ""The Mark and the Void"". Murray was born in Dublin in 1975, the son of a"
"from directors such as Reisz, Jack Clayton, Lindsay Anderson, John Schlesinger and Tony Richardson and adapted from the works of writers such as Sillitoe, John Braine and John Osborne. A common trope in these films was the working-class ""angry young man"" character who rebels against the oppressive system of his elders (in this case, the character of Arthur). In 1999, the British Film Institute named ""Saturday Night and Sunday Morning"" the 14th greatest British film of all time on their Top 100 British films list. Arthur Seaton is a young machinist at the Raleigh bicycle factory in Nottingham. He is"
"his mother, interspersed with his own recollections of life as a young student actor in London in the early 1960s. Courtenay is the President of Hull City AFC's Official Supporters' Club. In 1999, Courtenay was awarded an honorary doctorate by Hull University. On 19 January 2018 Sir Tom was bestowed the Honorary Freedom of the City of Hull. His roles include: Tom Courtenay Sir Thomas Daniel Courtenay (; born 25 February 1937) is an English actor who came to prominence in the early 1960s with a succession of films, including ""The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner"" (1962), ""Billy Liar"""
"from Cicero to the Simpsons"". His works for television and radio include: ""Between the Lines, Railways in Fiction and Film (2008)"", ""Disappearing Dad, Fathers in Literature (2010)"", ""The Trains that Time Forgot: Britain's Lost Railway Journeys"" (2015), all in the Timeshift series, and three essay series for Radio 3, ""The Sound and The Fury"" (2013), ""England Ejects"" (2014), ""The Further Realm"" (2015)."" Andrew Martin lives in north London with his wife and sons. Andrew Martin (novelist) Andrew Martin (born 6 July 1962) is an English novelist and journalist. Martin was brought up in Yorkshire, studied at Merton College, Oxford and"
"on the city's beachfront. Novels Contains important books and articles about Mailer and his works, many of which are cited in this article. See Works above for a list of Mailer's first editions and Mailer's individual works for reviews. Norman Mailer Norman Kingsley Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film-maker, actor, and liberal political activist. His novel ""The Naked and the Dead"" was published in 1948 and brought him renown. His 1968 nonfiction novel ""Armies of the Night"" won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction as well as the National Book Award."
"Mark Haddon Mark Haddon (born 28 October 1962) is an English novelist, best known for ""The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time"" (2003). He won the Whitbread Award, the Dolly Gray Children's Literature Award, Guardian Prize, and a Commonwealth Writers Prize for his work. Haddon was born on 28 October 1962 to Janella Murphy in Northampton, England. He was educated at Uppingham School and Merton College, Oxford, where he studied English. In 1984, he completed an MSc in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. In 1987, Haddon wrote his first children’s book, ""Gilbert’s Gobstopper"". This was followed"
"play ""The Importance of Being Earnest"". The memoir is subtitled ""The Memoirs of a Young Man in Search of Sex"". Stokes worked as a screenplay advisor on Tony Richardson's films ""The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner"" (1962), starring Tom Courtenay and Michael Redgrave, and on ""Tom Jones"" (1963), starring Albert Finney and Susannah York, and based on the novel of the same name by Henry Fielding. Sewell Stokes Francis Martin Sewell Stokes (16 November 1902, London – 2 November 1979, London) was an English novelist, biographer, playwright, screenwriter, broadcaster and prison visitor. He collaborated on a number of occasions"
"Her work often satirized Ann Radcliffe's work as well as ghostly figures, and her female characters often found themselves socially isolated. This list of works sourced from ""WorldCat Identities."" Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson (14 December 1779 - 19 March 1831) was an English writer of children's books, novels, and chapbooks. She was born 14 December 1779 and baptised as Sarah Carr Wilkinson. Her parents were Hannah and William. Wilkinson was born in and remained in the middle class throughout her life, often on the cusp of poverty. In 1788, John Marshall published ""Midsummer Holydays; or, A Long"" ""Story""."
"Sun at Midnight"", Phil Hine's ""Oven Ready Chaos"", ""The Pomegranate"" journal and ""The Cauldron"" magazine. Chumbley died on his 37th birthday following a severe asthma attack. After his death, ""his book values at second hand resale, which were already quite high, increased in an exponential and quite insane fashion within hours of his death becoming known."" At the time of his death Chumbley was working on his doctorate in the history of religion. Andrew D. Chumbley Andrew D. Chumbley (15 September 1967 – 15 September 2004) was an English practitioner and theorist of magic, and a writer, poet and artist."
"Paul Murray (author) Paul Murray (born 1975) is an Irish novelist, the author of the novels ""An Evening of Long Goodbyes"", ""Skippy Dies"" and ""The Mark and the Void"". Murray was born in Dublin in 1975, the son of a professor of Anglo-Irish Drama at University College Dublin and a teacher. Murray attended Blackrock College in south Dublin, an experience that would later provide the basis for the school in ""Skippy Dies"". He studied English literature at Trinity College, Dublin, and subsequently completed his master's in creative writing at the University of East Anglia. He also spent time in Barcelona"
"private discussions with her family and friends. Charles Langbridge Morgan Charles Langbridge Morgan (22 January 1894 – 6 February 1958) was an English-born playwright and novelist of English and Welsh parentage. The main themes of his work were, as he himself put it, ""Art, Love, and Death"", and the relation between them. Themes of individual novels range from the paradoxes of freedom (""The Voyage"", ""The River Line""), through passionate love seen from within (""Portrait in a Mirror"") and without (""A Breeze of Morning""), to the conflict of good and evil (""The Judge's Story"") and the enchanted boundary of death (""Sparkenbroke"")."
"BBC Third Programme, In 1974 Lehmann published a book of poems, ""The Reader at Night,"" hand-printed on handmade paper and hand-bound in an edition of 250 signed copies (Toronto, Basilike, 1974). An essay by Paul Davies about the creation of this book is included in Professor A.T. Tolley's collection, ""John Lehmann: a Tribute"" (Ottawa; Carleton University Press, 1987), which also includes pieces by Roy Fuller, Thom Gunn, Charles Osborne, Christopher Levenson, Jeremy Reed, George Woodcock, and others. Lehmann died in London. John Lehmann Rudolf John Frederick Lehmann (2 June 1907 – 7 April 1987) was an English poet and man"
"Morning, Noon and Night (novel) Morning, Noon and Night is a 1995 novel by Sidney Sheldon. The Stanford family is one of the most respected in America - but behind the facade of fame and glamour lies a hidden web of blackmail, drugs and murder. When Harry Stanford, one of the wealthiest men in the world,mysteriously drowns while cruising on his yacht off the rugged coast of Corsica, it sets off a chain of events that reverberates around the globe. At the family gathering following the funeral in Boston, a strikingly beautiful young woman appears. She claims to be Stanford's"
"critic John Russell Taylor. This was all part of the British New Wave—a transposition of the concurrent ""nouvelle vague"" film movement in France, some of whose works, such as ""The 400 Blows"" of 1959, also emphasised the lives of the urban proletariat. British filmmakers such as Tony Richardson and Lindsay Anderson (see also Free Cinema) channelled their vitriolic anger into film making. Confrontational films such as ""Saturday Night and Sunday Morning"" (1960) and ""A Taste of Honey"" (1961) were noteworthy movies in the genre. ""Saturday Night and Sunday Morning"" is about a young machinist who spends his wages at weekends"
"London Labour and the London Poor London Labour and the London Poor is a work of Victorian journalism by Henry Mayhew. In the 1840s he observed, documented, and described the state of working people in London for a series of articles in a newspaper, the ""Morning Chronicle"", that were later compiled into book form. Mayhew went into deep, almost pedantic detail concerning the trades, habits, religion, and domestic arrangements of the thousands of people working the streets of the city. Much of the material comprises detailed interviews in which people candidly describe their lives and work. For instance, Jack Black"
"Record Office. ""Saturday Night and Sunday Morning"", the 1958 debut novel by Alan Sillitoe, is partly set in Raleigh's Nottingham factory, Sillitoe himself being an ex-employee of the firm. Several scenes for the 1960 film adaptation starring Albert Finney were filmed on location at the factory itself. In the 1985 movie ""American Flyers"", David Sommers played by David Marshall Grant, is seen riding through St. Louis, Missouri, on a Raleigh bicycle from that same era. Later in the film, specialized bicycles are used for the race scenes in Colorado and training. In the 1986 bike messenger film ""Quicksilver"" a variety"
"D. H. Lawrence David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English writer and poet. His collected works represent, among other things, an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation. Some of the issues Lawrence explores are sexuality, emotional health, vitality, spontaneity, and instinct. Lawrence's opinions earned him many enemies and he endured official persecution, censorship, and misrepresentation of his creative work throughout the second half of his life, much of which he spent in a voluntary exile he called his ""savage pilgrimage"". At the time of his death, his public reputation was"
"Philip B. Anderson said the lyrics of ""Death's Jest Book"", exemplified by ""Sibylla's Dirge"" and ""The Swallow Leaves Her Nest"", are ""Beddoes' best work. These lyrics display a delicacy of form, a voluptuous horror, an imagistic compactness and suggestiveness, and, occasionally, a grotesque comic power that are absolutely unique."" Thomas Lovell Beddoes Thomas Lovell Beddoes (30 June 1803 – 26 January 1849) was an English poet, dramatist and physician. Born in Clifton, Bristol, England, he was the son of Dr. Thomas Beddoes, a friend of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Anna, sister of Maria Edgeworth. He was educated at Charterhouse and"
"Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, musician and travel writer. His most famous works are ""Treasure Island"", ""Kidnapped"", ""Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"", and ""A Child's Garden of Verses"". He was a literary celebrity during his lifetime, and now ranks as the 26th most translated author in the world. His works have been admired by many other writers, including Jorge Luis Borges, Bertolt Brecht, Marcel Proust, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, Cesare Pavese, Emilio Salgari, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Vladimir Nabokov, J."
"Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes (30 May 1919 – 20 March 2001) (a.k.a. Ronald Henry Glynn Chetwynd-Hayes or R. Chetwynd-Hayes) was a British author, best known for his ghost and horror stories. Prior to becoming a full-time writer, Chetwynd-Hayes worked in the furnishing trade. His first published work was the science fiction novel ""The Man from the Bomb"" in 1959. He went on to publish many collections and ten other novels including ""The Grange"", ""The Haunted Grange"", ""And Love Survived"" and ""The Curse of the Snake God"". Several of his short works were adapted into anthology-style movies in the United Kingdom,"
"Norman Mailer Norman Kingsley Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film-maker, actor, and liberal political activist. His novel ""The Naked and the Dead"" was published in 1948 and brought him renown. His 1968 nonfiction novel ""Armies of the Night"" won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction as well as the National Book Award. His best-known work is widely considered to be ""The Executioner's Song"", the 1979 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. In over six decades of work, Mailer had eleven best selling books in each of the seven decades after"
"Charles Langbridge Morgan Charles Langbridge Morgan (22 January 1894 – 6 February 1958) was an English-born playwright and novelist of English and Welsh parentage. The main themes of his work were, as he himself put it, ""Art, Love, and Death"", and the relation between them. Themes of individual novels range from the paradoxes of freedom (""The Voyage"", ""The River Line""), through passionate love seen from within (""Portrait in a Mirror"") and without (""A Breeze of Morning""), to the conflict of good and evil (""The Judge's Story"") and the enchanted boundary of death (""Sparkenbroke""). He was the husband of Welsh novelist"
"Towards the End of the Morning Towards The End Of The Morning is a 1967 satirical novel by Michael Frayn about journalists working on a British newspaper during the heyday of Fleet Street. Its protagonists work to compile the miscellaneous, unimportant parts of the newspaper – the ""nature notes"" column, the religious ""thought for the day"", the crossword and so on. The paper seems sunk in a state of torpor, and the journalists' work is extremely dull. Feeling their lives and careers are stalled, they spend most of their day complaining about work and dreaming of better things. John Dyson,"
"is especially remembered for his dystopian novel ""A Clockwork Orange"" 1962. Mervyn Peake (1911–68) published his Gothic fantasy Gormenghast trilogy between 1946 and 1959. Angela Carter (1940–1992) was a novelist and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picaresque works. Writing from the 1960s until the 1980s. Sir Salman Rushdie is among a number of post Second World War writers from former British colonies who permanently settled in Britain. Rushdie achieved fame with ""Midnight's Children"" (1981). His most controversial novel ""The Satanic Verses"" (1989) was inspired in part by the life of Muhammad. Doris Lessing from Southern Rhodesia (now"
"Baynard Kendrick Baynard Hardwick Kendrick (April 8, 1894 – March 22, 1977) was an American mystery novelist. He wrote whodunit novels about Duncan Maclain, a blind private investigator who worked with his two German shepherds and his household of assistants to solve murder mysteries. The novels were the basis for two films starring Edward Arnold, ""Eyes in the Night"" (1942) and ""The Hidden Eye"" (1945). Kendrick was credited by Stirling Silliphant for being the source of the ""Longstreet"" character about a blind insurance investigator. He also wrote using the pseudonym Richard Hayward. Kendrick was born in Philadelphia and traveled to"
"the 1930s. Cecil Beaton attempted to have all the copies destroyed. The novel subsequently disappeared from circulation, making it extremely rare. The story is, however, included in Berners' ""Collected Tales and Fantasies"". Radclyffe Hall Marguerite Radclyffe Hall (12 August 1880 – 7 October 1943) was an English poet and author. She is best known for the novel ""The Well of Loneliness"", a groundbreaking work in lesbian literature. Marguerite Radclyffe Hall was born in 1880 at ""Sunny Lawn"", Durley Road, Bournemouth, Hampshire (now Dorset), to a wealthy philandering father, Radclyffe Radclyffe-Hall, and an unstable mother, Mary Jane Diehl. Her stepfather was"
"Norman Cameron (poet) Norman Cameron (1905–1953) was a Scottish poet, distantly related to Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay who, between the two world wars, associated on Majorca with Robert Graves and Laura Riding. Later, as a part-time Fitzrovian, he was a colleague of Dylan Thomas, Geoffrey Grigson, Ruthven Todd, Len Lye, John Aldridge RA, Alan Hodge and many others. He worked as a copywriter at J. Walter Thompson (being responsible for one classic campaign, ""Horlicks for night starvation"") and at Ogilvy, Benson & Mather. Born in Bombay, Cameron was the eldest of four children of a Presbyterian Minister (Chaplain of the"