In which English midlands city was author Alan Sillitoe born?
Alan Sillitoe Alan Sillitoe Alan Sillitoe (4 March 192825 April 2010) 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. He is best known for his debut novel "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" and his early short story "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner", both of which were adapted into films. Sillitoe was born in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, to working-class parents, Christopher Sillitoe and Sabina (née Burton). Like Arthur Seaton, the anti-hero of his first novel, "Saturday Night and Sunday
Alan Burns (author) 1982 he co-edited (with Charles Sugnet) "The Imagination on Trial: British and American writers discuss their working methods", which the "Washington Post" "Book World" called "diverting, iconoclastic, and compulsively readable". The book included interviews with 11 authors (as well as Burns himself): J. G. Ballard, Eva Figes, John Gardner, Wilson Harris, John Hawkes, B. S. Johnson, Tom Mallin, Michael Moorcock, Grace Paley, Ishmael Reed, and Alan Sillitoe. Angus Wilson called Burns "one of the two or three most interesting new novelists working in England." Burns died in London, aged 83. Alan Burns (author) Alan Burns (29 December 1929 – 23