Sid Chaplin

Sid Chaplin OBE (1916 – 1986) was an English writer whose novels, television screenplays, poetry and short stories are mostly set in the North East England of the 1940s and 1950s.

Chaplin's literary career pre-dated the so-called angry young men genre and has been credited as an influence on the late 1950s/early 1960s "kitchen sink" social realism of writers such as Alan Sillitoe and Stan Barstow. His novels The Day of the Sardine (1961) and The Watchers and the Watched (1962) have been cited as classics of "working class existentialism".…more