Alan Seeger foi um poeta americano que lutou e morreu na Primeira Guerra Mundial durante a Batalha do Somme, servindo na Legião Estrangeira Francesa. Seeger era irmão de Elizabeth Seeger, autora e educadora infantil, e de Charles Seeger, um notável pacifista e musicólogo americano; ele também era tio dos músicos folk Pete Seeger, Peggy Seeger e Mike Seeger. Ele é elogiado pelo poema " I Have a Rendezvous with Death ", favorito do presidente John F. Kennedy. Uma estátua que o representa está no monumento da Place des États-Unis, em Paris, homenageando os americanos caídos que se ofereceram como voluntários para a França durante a guerra. Seeger é às vezes chamado de " Rupert Brooke americano".
Alan Sharp was a Scottish novelist and screenwriter. He published two novels in the 1960s, and subsequently wrote the screenplays for about twenty films, mostly produced in the United States.
Alan Sillitoe FRSL was an English writer and one of the so-called "angry young men" of the 1950s. He disliked the label, as did most of the other writers to whom it was applied. He is best known for his debut novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and his early short story "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner", both of which were adapted into films.
Alan Sillitoe, né le 4 mars 1928 à Nottingham et mort le 25 avril 2010 à Londres, est un écrivain britannique, l'un des Angry Young Men des années 1950.
