Alan sillitoe biography
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Alan Sillitoe's experiences in the city shaped his writing throughout his life
The Nottingham-born novelist, and poet, Alan Sillitoe has died aged 82 at Charing Cross Hospital in London.
Alan Sillitoe was born in Nottingham in 1928 and wrote largely about his working class background.
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning was his most famous work and is set in Nottingham among the terraced houses of Radford and the former Raleigh factory.
Back in the 1950s the book did not initially find favour with publishers.
He persisted: "I knew that at last this book had come along which was clear and concise...
and it really was worth publishing," he told the BBC in 2008.
Alan sillitoe nottinghamHis conviction paid off and the book was published in 1958.
Like his character, Arthur Seaton, in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Alan Sillitoe worked at the Raleigh Bicycle Factory in Radford.
He said of the workers: "Morning, noon and night men and women going down Salisb