Alan Burgess

For the New Zealand cricketer, see Alan Burgess (cricketer).

Alan Burgess (1 February 1915 – 10 April 1998) was an English Royal Air Force pilot and author who wrote several biographical and non-fiction books between the 1950s and the 1970s. He wrote biographies of Gladys Aylward,^[1] and Flora Sandes,^[2] and co-wrote Ingrid Bergman's autobiography.^[3] Bergman played Gladys Aylward in the film The Inn of the Sixth Happiness based on Burgess's biography.

Alan Burgess
Born	(1915-02-01)1 February 1915 Birmingham, England
Died	10 April 1998(1998-04-10) (aged 83) England
Occupation	Author

Having served in the Royal Air Force during World War II,^[4] Burgess went on to write The Longest Tunnel: The True Story of World War II's Great Escape,^[5] the story of "The Great Escape".

Works

Novels

• Alan Burgess (1968). The Word for Love. Dutton.

Non-fiction

Biographies

• Alan Burgess (1957). The Inn of the Sixth Happiness.
• Alan Burgess (1959). The Small Woman: The Heroic Story of Gladys Aylward. Reprint Society. ISBN 9780330101967. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
• Alan Burgess (1963). The Lovely Sergeant. Readers Book Club.
• Alan Burgess (1975). Daylight Must Come: The Story of a Courageous Woman Doctor in the Congo. G. K. Hall. ISBN 978-0-8161-6281-9.
• Ingrid Bergman; Alan Burgess (1980). Ingrid Bergman: My Story. Delacorte Press. ISBN 978-0-4400-3299-1.
• Kay Sandiford, Alan Burgess (1984). Shattered Night. ISBN 9780446512596.

History

• Alan Burgess (1960). Seven Men at Daybreak. Evans Bros.
• Alan Burgess (1990). The Longest Tunnel: The True Story of World War II's Great Escape. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-1-59114-097-9.

Adaptations

• The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958), film directed by Mark Robson, based on book The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
• Operation Daybreak (1975), film directed by Lewis Gilbert, based on book Seven Men at Daybreak