![]() ![]() Other novels include 'The Flame of Life', 'The Storyteller', 'Leonard's War and 'A Man of His Time'.Ĭollections of Poems include 'The Rats and Other Poems' and 'Snow on the North Side of Lucifer'. He has written 50 books, including poetry, plays and stories for children plus 25 novels. Sillitoe's book 'The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner' was also adapted as a film, starring Tom Courtenay (1962). Adapted for the big screen by Karel Reisz in 1960, with Albert Finney starring as Arthur Seaton. ![]() 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning' was published in 1958. He moved to Mallorca on a military pension where he started writing encouraged by the poet Robert Graves. Sillitoe joined the RAF in 1946, but contracted TB. Worked in the Raleigh bicycle factory in Nottingham. Born in Nottingham in 1928 into a working class family. ![]()
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