Alligator Playground

Alan Sillitoe

was born in 1928, and left school at fourteen to work in various factories until becoming an air traffic control assistant with the Ministry of Aircraft Production in 1945.

He began writing after four years in the RAF, and lived for six years in France and Spain. His first stories were printed in the Nottinghamshire Weekly Guardian. In 1958 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning was published, and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, which won the Hawthornden Prize for literature, came out the following year. Both these books were made into films.

Further works include Key to the Door, The Ragman’s Daughter and The General (both also filmed), The William Posters Trilogy, A Start in Life, Raw Material, The Widower’s Son, Her Victory, The Lost Flying Boat, Down from the Hill, Life Goes On, The Open Door, Last Loves, Leonard’s War, Snowstop, Collected Stories, Alligator Playground, and The Broken Chariot — as well as eight volumes of poetry, and Nottinghamshire, for which David Stillitoe took the photographs. He has also published his autobiography, Life Without Armour.

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