Culture of Manchester an early author of police procedural novels. Procter's "Hell is a City" (1954) is set in a fictionalised Manchester, later filmed in the city with lead roles for Donald Pleasence and Stanley Baker. Anthony Burgess (born 1917), author of "A Clockwork Orange", was born and educated in Manchester. "Little Wilson and Big God", the first volume of his autobiography, includes a detailed account of his early life in the city between 1917 and 1940. Howard Jacobson, born in Prestwich in 1942, an area with a strong Jewish community, has written about post-war Manchester in "The Mighty Walzer" (1999) and "Kalooki
Martin Page (British author) Martin Page (British author) Martin Page (30 June 1938 - 10 September 2003) was a British writer and journalist who founded Business Traveler magazine. After attending Leighton Park and Millfield, Page went to Pembroke College, Cambridge" where he studied anthropology. At the age of 24, despite suffering from retinitis pigmentosa, Page became Fleet Street's youngest correspondent, covering seven wars from Algeria to Vietnam. He began his career as a graduate trainee for the Manchester Guardian before joining the Daily Express. In 1975, Page founded Business Traveler magazine. The magazine included Auberon Waugh on its payroll. Page also wrote for the