Barstow, Stan (1928– )

English novelist. His realist novels describe northern working-class life and include A Kind of Loving (1960) (filmed in 1962), a first-person, present-tense narrative of a young man trapped into marriage. He ranks with John Braine, Alan Sillitoe, David Storey, and Keith Waterhouse as a contributor to the modern regional novel.

His other novels include A Raging Calm (1968), B Movie (1987), and Next of Kin (1991). He also wrote television dramas, including Joby (1976) and The Man Who Cried (1993), and many radio plays for the BBC, including The Desperadoes (1964), We Could Always Fit a Sidecar (1974), and Foreign Parts (1990). His autobiography, In My Own Good Time, was published in 2001.