Here's a brief out line of Bill's life and works
1910 | Bill was born in Ballyhaunis, Co Mayo, Ireland | ||
1914 | Naughton Family moved to Bolton | ||
1915-24 | Bill was educated at SS Peter & Paul School | ||
1924-39 | Worked as a weaver, coal bagger & driver | ||
1930-50 |
Married Anne (Nan) Wilcock and had three children,
Marie, Larry and Sean. Sean died in infancy. The
Marriage ended in 1950
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1938 |
Worked as an observer for Mass Observation. Started an affair with Austrian Sociologists Gertrude Wagner |
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1940 |
Moved to London as a Civil Defence driver - following Gertrude as by this time his marriage had broken down |
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1943 |
First story 'Ghost Driver published in London Evening
News
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1943-64 |
Short Stories published in London & Manchester
Evening News, other papers and Lilliput magazine
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1945 | 'A roof over your head' (pilot Press) | ||
1946 | 'Pony Boy' (Pilot Press) | ||
1947 | 'Rafe Granite' (Pilot Press) | ||
1948 |
Met Ernestina Pirot, au pair for Gertrude Gertrude returns to Vienna with the two children, Barney & Michael, she had with Bill. |
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1952 | Married Erna Pirolt | ||
1957 | One Small Boy (MacGibbon & Knee) | ||
1957 | My Flesh, My Blood (The Mermaid Theatre) | ||
1958 | 'June Evening' (BBC Radio Third Programme) | ||
1959 | 'Late Night on Watling Street' (MacGibbon & Knee) | ||
1960 | 'June Evening' TV play | ||
1961 | 'The Goal Keeper's Revenge' (Harrap)_ | ||
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'All in Good Time' (The Mermaid Theatre) | ||
1961 |
'Alfie Elkins and His Little Life' (BBC Radio Third Programme |
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1963 | 'Alfie' (the Mermaid Theatre) | ||
1966 | 'Alfie' (Lewis Gilbert, Film) | ||
1966 | 'The Family Way' (John Boulting, Film) | ||
1966 |
'Alfie' & 'The Family Way' won Screenwriters Guild
Awards for Best British Screenplay and nominated
for an Academy Award (Oscar).
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1967
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Bolton Octagon opened with a performance of
'Annie and Fanny'
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1968 | Bill and family moved to Isle of Man | ||
1970 | 'Spring and Port Wine' (Michael Medwin, Film) | ||
1985 | Nan Wilcock, Bill's first wife, died. | ||
1987 |
'On the Pig's Back' (OUP)
published and won Portico Prize
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1988 | 'Saint Billy' (OUP) | ||
1992 | Bill Naughton died of a stroke | ||
1992 | 'Alfie' at Bolton Octagon for their Silver Anniversary | ||
1995 | 'Neither Use Nor Ornament' (Bloodaxe) | ||
2000 | 'Voices from a Journal' (Lilliput) | ||
2009 | 'The Dream Mind' (Arcadia Books) |