Quote of the day
The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.
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)