John Braine

John Gerald Braine was an English novelist who after various dead-end jobs became a library assistant and followed this career, with an interval war service, until the success of <a href="/c/books/book/449658/room-at-the-top/">Room at the Top</a> enabled him to devote his whole time to writing. Braine is usually listed among the angry young men, a loosely defined group of English writers who emerged on the literary scene in the 1950s. Braine wrote 12 works of fiction, and 2 non-fiction.