 Novelist, poet, playwright and occasional screenwriter Alan Sillitoe's disaffected working-class heroes, particularly Arthur Seaton of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (d. Karel Reisz, 1960), closely aligned him with the Angry Young Men. Yet Sillitoe is also the chronicler of a changing post-war world where the working classes face an unappetising choice between drudgery, degradation and despair or the materialist blandishments of deadening suburban affluence. His work for the screen was always as elegiac as it was polemical, owing more to Richard Hoggart than Jimmy Porter. Kevin Foster, Encyclopedia of British Film
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