Male : Novelist & Poet. Married Ruth Fainlight in 1959. Lived in Majorca, on his RAF pension, for six years

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Nottingham

Date of Birth : 1928

Other Work : Worked in a bicycle factory from age of 14

Education : Radford Boulevard School, Nottingham

W H Allen unless stated otherwise
1957-1960
Without Beer or Bread (1957 Outpost Publications, Dulwich) - verse
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958) (1958 Knopf)
[One of the first post-war novels of working class life]
[Filmed in 1960]
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1959) (1959 Knopf) - ss
[Filmed in 1962]
The General (1960) (1960 Knopf)
[Filmed in 1967 as "Counterpoint"]
The Rats & Other Poems (1960)

1961-1970
Key to the Door (1961 Macmillan) (1961 Knopf)
The Ragman's Daughter (1963) (1963 Knopf) - ss
[Filmed in 1972]
A Falling Out of Love & other Poems (1964)
The Road to Volgograd (1964) (1964 Knopf)
The Death of William Posters (1965 Macmillan) (1965 Knopf)
A Tree on Fire (1967 Macmillan) (1967 Knopf)
The City Adventures of Marmalade Jim (1967 Macmillan)
Love in the Environs of Voronezeh (1968 Macmillan) (1968 Doubleday) - verse
Shaman and Other Poems (1968 Turret Books) - 500
Guzman Go Home & Other Stories (1968 Macmillan) (1968 Doubleday)
(Adaptation of Lope de Vega) All Citizens are Soldiers
(1969 Macmillan 36/-) (1969 Dufour) - with Ruth Fainlight
A Start in Life (1970) (1971 Scribner)

1971-1980
Travels in Nihilon (1971) (1972 Scribner)
Raw Material (1972) (1973 Scribner)
Men, Women and Children (1973) (1974 Doubleday) - ss
Barbarians & Other Poems (1973 Turret Books) - 100 signed
From Canto Two of The Rats (1973 PP by the author, Withersham, Kent)
Storm - New Poems (1974)The Flame of Life (1974)
Mountains and Caverns (1975)
The Widower's Son (1976) (1977 Harper)
Day-Dream Communique (1977 Sceptre Press)
Big John and the Stars (1977 Robson)
The Incredible Fencing Fleas (1978 Robson)Three Plays (1978)
Snow on the North Side of Lucifer (1979 SP) - verse
The Storyteller (1979) (1980 Simon & Schuster)
Marmalade Jim at the Farm (1980 Robson)

1981-1990
The Second Chance and Other Stories (1981 Cape £5.95) (1981 S & S)
Her Victory (1982 Granada £8.95) (1982 Watts)
The Lost Flying Boat (1983 Granada)
The Saxon Shore Way (1983 Hutchinson)
Down from the Hill (1984 Granada £7.95)
Sun Before Departure : Poems 1974-1984 (1984 Granada)
Marmalade Jim and the Fox (1984 Robson) - Tony Ross
Life Goes On (1985 Granada)
Tides and Stone Walls (1986 Grafton)
Alan Sillitoe's Nottinghamshire (1987 Grafton)
Every Day of the Week : An Alan Sillitoe Reader (1987)
Out of the Whirlpool (1987 Hutchinson) (1988 Harper) - novella
Three Poems (1988 Mir Poets 10, Worlds Press)
The Far Side of the Street (1988) - ss
The Open Door (1989 Grafton)
Lost Loves (1990 Grafton)

After 1991
Leonard's War : A Love Story (1991 Harper Collins £14.99)
Snowstop (1992 Harper Collins)
Collected Stories (1995 Flamingo £16.99)
Life Without Armour (1995 Harper Collins £18.99) - autobiography of his early years
Leading the Blind : A Century of Guide Book Travel 1815-1914 (1995 Macmillan £15.99)
Alligator Playground (1997 Flamingo £16.99) - ss
The Broken Chariot (1998 Flamingo £16.99)
The German Numbers Woman
Birthday (2001 Flamingo £16.99)
New and Collected Stories (2003 Robson Books £14.99)
A Flight of Arrows : Opinions, People, Places (2003 Robson £16.95)
New and Collected Stories (2003 Robson Books £14.99)
A Man of His Time (2004 Flamingo £17.99)

READING
David E Gerard : Alan Sillitoe - A Bibliography (1988 Mansell)