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Alan Sillitoe, born 4 March 1928 in Nottingham. He was an English writer of The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, for which he was awarded the Hawthornden Prize in 1959, later made into a movie. The other is his debut novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning also made into a movie.
Novels
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, London: Allen, 1958; New York: Knopf, 1959. New edition (1968) has an introduction by Sillitoe, commentary and notes by David Craig. Longman edition (1976) has a sequence of Nottingham photographs, and stills from the film, Harlow.
The General, London: Allen, 1960; New York: Knopf, 1961
Key to the Door, London: Allen, 1961; New York: Knopf, 1962; reprinted, with a new preface by Sillitoe, London: Allen, 1978
The Death of William Posters, London: Allen, 1965; New York: Knopf, 1965
A Tree on Fire, London: Macmillan, 1967; Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968
A Start in Life, London: Allen, 1970; New York: Scribners, 1971
Travels in Nihilon, London: Allen, 1971; New York: Scribners, 1972
The Flame of Life, London: Allen, 1974
The Widower's Son, Allen, 1976; New York: Harper & Row, 1977
The Storyteller, London: Allen, 1979; New York: Simon & Schuster, 1980.
Her Victory, London: Granada, 1982;
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