Unlike some of his contemporaries, however, Mr. But he never repeated the acclaim or the influence that accrued to his first works of fiction, which were published in the late 1950s and led critics to group him with the so-called angry young men, writers like Kingsley Amis, John Braine, John Wain and the playwright John Osborne who were also describing characters in revolt against the British class system. He published more than 50 books including poetry, essays, travel writing and fiction for both adults and children along with a handful of plays and screenplays. Sillitoe, who grew up desperately poor and left school at 14, had a long and prolific career, and he spent much of it plumbing the privations of his childhood for material. His son, David, confirmed the death to The Associated Press.
Alan Sillitoe, a British writer whose two early works a novel, “Saturday Night and Sunday Morning,” and a short story, “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner” drew attention to the seething alienation of the postwar working class in England, died on Sunday in London.
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