Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
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)