Poetic Obituaries: In a memorable Desert Island Discs interview

recorded a year or so ago, [Alan] Sillitoe advanced the modest claim that all he had ever really wanted to do was to achieve enough success to enable him to, as he put it, "plod away", writing a book a year and pleasing himself. This is exactly what he contrived to do: the bibliography of his post-1960s output runs to more than 60 items, including poetry, a shrewd and revealing autobiography (Life Without Armour, 1995) and the recent cold war travelogue, Gadfly in Russia.

from The Guardian: Alan Sillitoe: His own man
also The Economist: Alan Sillitoe
from Buenos Aires Herald: Alan Sillitoe: The loneliness of the lifetime writer

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