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Walter Brierley (1900–1972) was an English novelist active in the 1930s and one of the Birmingham Group of writers. His first book ''Means Test Man'' has been called “one of the most powerful and original novels of that decade.”〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Spokesman Books Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire titles )〕 Born in Waingroves, Derbyshire, to a family of miners, Brierley left school at 13 and started work at the local colliery. Following Workers’ Educational Association night classes he applied through the Miners Welfare Scholarship to study at Nottingham University College, but later returned to mining until made redundant in the early 1930s.〔http://www.pennilesspress.co.uk/prose/walter_brierley.htm〕 Following encouragement from Birmingham Group writers John Hampson and Walter Allen,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Walter Brierley Biography )〕 Brierley became a full-time writer and his first novel, ''Means Test Man'', was published in 1935, drawing on first-hand experience of unemployment and poverty. It is regarded as a key work of 1930s working-class literature,〔”Miners and the Novel”, Graham Holderness, in ''The British Working-Class Novel in the Twentieth Century'', Jeremy Hawthorn (Ed.), Edward Arnold, 1984〕 and has been reprinted twice. His second novel ''Sandwichman'' followed in 1937 and has also been reprinted.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=FICTION )〕 Further writing included two more novels, as well as radio plays,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Working Class Novelists 1930-1950 )〕 but Brierley was unable to make a living as a writer and worked full time as an education welfare officer until retirement in the 1960s. ==Works== *''Means Test Man'' (1935, 1983, 2011) *''Sandwichman'' (1937, 1990) *''Dalby Green'' (1938) *''Danny'' (1940) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Walter Brierley (writer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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