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In May 1956 the London newspapers and the Royal Court Theatre created a myth out of a generation of writers, calling them 'Angry Young Men'. Within a few weeks of the opening of a play
LOOK BACK IN ANGER by John Osborne another young working class writer, Colin
Wilson, published a book called THE OUTSIDER. Hailed by the press
as a genius, as England's answer to the French existentialist philosophers
and writers, he was thrown in with Osborne as part of the new movement.
To these were soon added writers like Alan Sillitoe, Kingsley Amis,
Arnold Wesker, even Harold Pinter and Doris Lessing.
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