Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
Alan Sillitoe
Born: March 4, 1928
Died: April 25, 2010 (aged 82)
Bio: Alan Sillitoe 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.
Known for:
- The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1959)
- Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958)
- Life without armour (1995)
- A Start In Life (1970)
- New and Collected Stories (2001)