Bill Naughton was a British playwright and author, best known for his play "Alfie". Naughton was born on June 12th, 1910 in Ballyhaunis, County Mayo. Naughton's family moved to Bolton in Lancashire in 1914, where he attended St Peter and Paul School. He worked as a weaver, coal-bagger and lorry-driver before he started writing, where his preferred environment was working class society. Although "Alfie" is the play with which he will always be associated, he was a prolific writer. His work includes "The Goalkeeper's Revenge: And Other Stories", a collection of thirteen short stories first published in 1961. During his lifetime, he received the Screenwriters Guide Award in 1967 and 1968, the Italia Prize for Radio Play in 1974, the Children's Rights Workshop Other Award in 1978 and the Portico Literary Prize in 1987. Naughton died aged 81 in 1992, in Ballasalla on the Isle of Man. "The Goalkeeper's Revenge" also happens to be the title of the next Belle and Sebastian album, if you believe Rolling Stone. http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/7582787/belleandsebastian -- James (james@chachacha.co.uk) +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+