Alan Sillitoe

Alan Sillitoe is the author of The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and many other work. From 1960 to 1963, Sillitoe and his wife lived at various times in Tangier, Morocco. Alan Sillitoe and Ruth Fainlight and were close friends and neighbors of Paul and Jane Bowles during the times they lived in Tangier.

Ruth Fainlight (photograph copyright © by Caroline Forbes)

Ruth Fainlight was born in New York City in 1931. Her father was born in London, and her mother was born in the eastern border area of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now in the Ukraine. Fainlight attended school in America, but when she was fifteen, Fainlight and her parents moved to England, where she studied.