Alan Sillitoe (4 March 1928 – 25 April 2010) was an English writer and one of the "Angry Young Men" of the 1950s. He disliked the label, as did most of the other writers to whom it was applied.
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Mississippi: I am not your son. My name is Alan Bourdillon Traherne.
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“He was a laborer. Sweated his goods out for nine pound a week. He never had it so good.”
—Alan Sillitoe (b. 1928)