British novelist and screenwriter Barry Hines, who "wrote about working-class lives for more than 40 years" and whose most famous book, A Kestrel for a Knave, was adapted for the 1969 Ken Loach film Kes, died March 18, the Guardian reported. He was 76.
Barry "was often considered to be part of the generation of celebrated northern writers (and to a lesser extent the angry young man movement) including Alan Sillitoe, Stan Barstow, John Braine and Keith Waterhouse, yet was a decade younger than most of them," the Guardian wrote. His books The Gamekeeper, The Price of Coal and Looks & Smiles were also filmed by Loach, with Barry writing the screenplays.