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Alan Sillitoe (4 March 1928 - 25 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.

Works

Novels

• Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, London: Allen, 1958; New York: Knopf, 1959. New edition (1968) has an introduction by Sillitoe, commentary and notes by David Craig. Longman edition (1976) has a sequence of Nottingham photographs, and stills from the film, Harlow.
• The General, London: Allen, 1960; New York: Knopf, 1961
• Key to the Door, London: Allen, 1961; New York: Knopf, 1962; reprinted, with a new preface by Sillitoe, London: Allen, 1978
• The Death of William Posters, London: Allen, 1965; New York: Knopf, 1965
• A Tree on Fire, London: Macmillan, 1967; Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968
• A Start in Life, London: Allen, 1970; New York: Scribners, 1971
• Travels in Nihilon, London: Allen, 1971; New York: Scribners, 1972
• The Flame of Life, London: Allen, 1974
• The Widower's Son, Allen, 1976; New York: Harper & Row, 1977
• The Storyteller, London: Allen, 1979; New York: Simon & Schuster, 1980.
• Her Victory, London: Granada, 1982; New York: Watts, 1982
• The Lost Flying Boat, London: Granada, 1983; Boston: Little, Brown, 1983
• Down from the Hill, London: Granada, 1984
• Life Goes On, London: Granada, 1985
• Out of the Whirlpool. London: Hutchinson, 1987
• The Open Door, London: Grafton/Collins, 1989
• Last Loves, London: Grafton, 1990; Boston: Chivers, 1991
• Leonard's War: A Love Story. London: HarperCollins, 1991
• Snowstop, London: HarperCollins, 1993
• The Broken Chariot, London: Flamingo/HarperCollins, 1998
• The German Numbers Woman, London: Flamingo/HarperCollins, 1999
• Birthday, London: Flamingo/HarperCollins, 2001
• A Man of His Time, Flamingo (UK), 2004, Template:ISBN; Harper Perennial (US), 2005. Template:ISBN; Template:ISBN

Collections of short stories

• The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, London: Allen, 1959; New York: Knopf, 1960
• The Ragman’s Daughter and Other Stories, London: Allen, 1963; New York: Knopf, 1964
• Guzman, Go Home, and Other Stories, London: Macmillan, 1968; Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1969; reprinted, with a new preface by Sillitoe, London; Allen, 1979
• Men, Women and Children, London: Allen, 1973; New York: Scribners, 1974
• Down to the Bone, Exeter: Wheaton, 1976
• The Second Chance and Other Stories, London: Cape, 1981; New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981
• The Far Side of the Street: Fifteen Short Stories, London: Allen, 1988
• Alligator Playground: A Collection of Short Stories, Flamingo, 1997, Template:ISBN
• New and Collected Stories, Carroll and Graf, 2005. Template:ISBN

Compilations

• Every Day of the Week: An Alan Sillitoe Reader, with an introduction by John Sawkins London: Allen, 1987
• Collected Stories, London: Flamingo, 1995; New York: HarperCollins, 1996

Writing for children

• The City Adventures of Marmalade Jim, London: Macmillan, 1967; Toronto: Macmillan, 1967; revised ed., London: Robson, 1977
• Big John and the Stars, London: Robson, 1977
• The Incredible Fencing Fleas, London: Robson, 1978. Illus. Mike Wilks.
• Marmalade Jim at the Farm, London: Robson, 1980
• Marmalade Jim and the Fox, London: Robson, 1984

Essays/travel

• Road to Volgograd, London: Allen, 1964; New York: Knopf, 1964
• Raw Material, London: Allen, 1972; New York: Scribners, 1973; rev. ed., London: Pan Books, 1974; further revised, London: Star Books, 1978; further revised, London: Allen, 1979
• Mountains and Caverns: Selected Essays, London: Allen, 1975
• Words Broadsheet Nineteen, by Sillitoe and Ruth Fainlight. Bramley, Surrey: Words Press, 1975. Broadside
• "The Interview", London: The 35s (Women's Campaign for Soviet Jewry), 1976
• Israel: Poems on a Hebrew Theme, with drawings by Ralph Steadman; London: Steam Press, 1981 98 copies.
• The Saxon Shore Way: From Gravesend to Rye, by Sillitoe and Fay Godwin. London: Hutchinson, 1983
• Alan Sillitoe’s Nottinghamshire, with photographs by David Sillitoe. London: Grafton, 1987
• Shylock the Writer, London: Turret Bookshop, 1991
• The Mentality of the Picaresque Hero, London: Turret Bookshop, 1993, Turret Papers, no. 2. (500 copies)
• Leading the Blind: A Century of Guidebook Travel. 1815-1914, London: Macmillan, 1995
• Gadfly in Russia, JR Books, 2007

Plays

• Three Plays, London: Allen, 1978 Contains The Slot-Machine, The Interview, Pit Strike

Autobiography

• Life Without Armour, (HarperCollins, 1995) Template:ISBN, Template:ISBN

Collections of poems

• Without Beer or Bread, Dulwich Village: Outposts, 1957
• The Rats and Other Poems, London: Allen, 1960
• Falling Out of Love and Other Poems, London; Allen, 1964; Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1964
• Shaman and Other Poems", Turret, 1968 (Limited ed. of 500 copies, 100 copies signed and numbered)
• Love in the Environs of Voronezh and Other Poems, London: Macmillan, 1968; Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1969.
• Poems, by Sillitoe, Ruth Fainlight and Ted Hughes; London: Rainbow Press, 1971. (300 copies)
• From Canto Two of The Rats, Wittersham, Kent: Alan Sillitoe, 1973
• Barbarians and Other Poems, London: Turret Books, 1973. 500 copies
• Storm: New Poems, London: Allen, 1974
• Somme, London: Steam Press, 1974. In Steam Press Portfolio, no. 2. 50 copies
• Day-Dream Communiqué, Knotting, Bedfordshire: Sceptre Press, 1977. 150 copies
• From Snow on the North Side of Lucifer, Knotting, Bedfordshire: Sceptre Press, 1979. (150 copies)
• Snow on the North Side of Lucifer: Poems, London: Allen, 1979
• Poems for Shakespeare 7, Bear Gardens Museum and Arts Centre, 1979 (Limited to 500 numbered copies)
• More Lucifer, Knotting, Bedfordshire: Martin Booth, 1980. 125 copies
• Sun Before Departure: Poems, 1974–1982, London: Granada, 1984
• Tides and Stone Walls: Poems, with photographs by Victor Bowley; London: Grafton, 1986
• Three Poems, Child Okefurd, Dorset: Words Press, 1988. 200 copies
• Collected Poems, London: HarperCollins, 1993

Film scripts

• Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) (screenplay based on own novel)
• The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962) (screenplay based on own short story)
• Counterpoint (1967) (based on his novel The General)
• The Ragman's Daughter (1972) (based on short story)

Translations

• Chopin's Winter in Majorca 1838–1839, by Luis Ripoll, translated by Sillitoe. Palma de Majorca: Mossen Alcover, 1955
• Chopin’s Pianos: The Pleyel in Majorca, by Luis Ripoll, translated by Sillitoe. Palma de Majorca: Mossen Alcover, 1958
• All Citizens Are Soldiers (Fuente Ovejuna): A Play in Two Acts, by Lope de Vega translated by Sillitoe and Ruth Fainlight. London: Macmillan, 1969; Chester Springs, PA: Dufour, 1969
• Poems for Shakespeare, volume 7, edited and translated by Sillitoe and Ruth Fainlight. London: Bear Gardens Museum & Arts Centre, 1980