Alan Sillitoe was born in Nottingham, England, to working-class parents. His father worked in the Raleigh factory. In World War II he served with the Royal Air Force as a wireless operator in Malaysia from 1946-1949. Upon returning to England, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis and spent sixteen months in an RAF hospital. After he was discharged, he lived in France and Spain on his veteran's pension and attempted to recover from the disease. In 1955, while living in Mallorca with his lover, American poet Ruth Fainlight, he began to write his first novel, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, which was published in 1958. He has written many novels and several volumes of poetry. In 1995 he wrote an autobiography, Life Without Armour. He married Ruth Fainlight, and lives in London.
Alan Sillitoe
Author details
- Born:
- March 4, 1928
- Died:
- April 25, 2010
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Books by Alan Sillitoe
![Mary Wollstonecraft, Charles Dickens, Lord Byron, Doris Lessing, Ovid, Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Marlowe, W. H. Auden, Seamus Heaney, Andrew Marvell, Anna Quindlen, Nadine Gordimer, Arthur C. Clarke, Kate Kinsella, Kevin Feldman, Colleen, Ph. D. Shea-stump, Joyce Armstrong Carroll, Edward E. Wilson, Joseph Addison, Anna Akhmatova, Virginia Woolf, Yehuda Amichai, Matthew Arnold, Bashö, Bede, Bei Dao, James Berry, Joanna Baillie, William Blake, Tony Blair, Eavan Boland, James Boswell, Brooke, Rupert, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Robert Bolt, Charlotte Brontë, Robert Burns, Buson Yosa, Tracy Chapman, Winston Churchill, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Confucius, Daniel Defoe, John Donne, T. S. Eliot, Elizabeth l, Queen of England, Anne Finch, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Thomas Gray, Thomas Hardy, Heinrich Heine, Robert Herrick, Gerard Manley Hopkins, A. E. Housman, Ken Hughes, Ted Hughes, Kobayashi, Issa, Thomas Jefferson, Francis Jeffrey, Sophocles, Samuel Johnson LL.D., Ben Jonson, John Keats, Amelia Lanier, Philip Larkin, D. H. Lawrence, Richard Lovelace, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Louis MacNeice, Thomas Malory, Catherine McGuinness, Thomas More, Saki, Pablo Neruda, V. S. Naipaul, Sir Isaac Newton, Wilfred Owen - undifferentiated, Margaret Paston, Samuel Pepys, Francesco Petrarca, Alexander Pope, Walter Raleigh, Redgrove, Peter., Arthur Rimbaud, Sappho, Siegfried Sassoon, Graham Greene, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Sir Philip Sidney, Alan Sillitoe, Stevie Smith, Sydney Smith, Muriel Spark, Stephen Spender, Edmund Spenser, Suckling, John Sir, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Dylan Thomas, Emma Thompson, William Trevor, Tu Fu, Suzanne Vega, Derek Walcott, William Wordsworth, William Butler Yeats, Anita Desai, Elizabeth Bowen, Geoffrey Chaucer, Mary Shelley, John Milton, George Orwell, Jane Austen, Jonathan Swift, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Brontë, Rudyard Kipling, William Shakespeare, Homer, Richard Ellmann, Joseph Conrad, Jorge Luis Borges: Prentice Hall Literature: Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes (Hardcover, 2005, Pearson Prentice Hall)](/images/covers/b7447cae-d76c-46c2-9717-448923d59b4b.jpeg)
Prentice Hall Literature: Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes
by Mary Wollstonecraft, Charles Dickens, Lord Byron, and 119 others