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Name: Bill Naughton  
   
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Date of Birth: 12th June 1910
   
Place of Birth: Ballyhaunis, Ireland
   
Profession: Writer
 
 
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William John Francis Naughton, or Bill Naughton (Ballyhaunis, June 12, 1910 - Ballasalla, January 9, 1992) was a British playwright and author, best known for his play Alfie.

Born in Ballyhaunis, County Mayo, his family moved to Bolton in Lancashire in 1914, where he attended St Peter and Paul School. Naughton worked as a weaver, coal-bagger and lorry-driver before he started writing. Naughton's preferred environment was working class society. Although Alfie is the play with which he will always be associated, he was a prolific writer, with both plays, novels, short stories and children’s books to his name. His work include:

  • The Goalkeeper's Revenge: And Other Stories (short stories, 1974)
  • One Small Boy (novel, 1957)
  • The Family Way (play, 1966)

During his lifetime, he received the following awards:

  • Screenwriters Guide Award (1967 and 1968)
  • Italia Prize for Radio Play (1974)
  • Children's Rights Workshop Other Award (1978)
  • Portico Literary Prize (1987)
  • The Hon. Fellowship, Bolton Institute of Higher Education (1988).

Naughton died in 1992, in Ballasalla on the Isle of Man. There is today a "Bill Naughton Short Story Competition" in honour of the author.

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