He was catapulted to critical attention when, still in his 20s, he wrote a trilogy of plays drawing on his upbringing among working-class British Jews with socialist politics: “Chicken Soup With Barley” (1956), “Roots” (1958) and “I’m Talking About Jerusalem” (1960). His son Lindsay confirmed the death, at a hospital.
LONDON - Arnold Wesker, a British playwright who came to prominence in the 1950s with stark dramas about working-class life, many of them influenced by his childhood in a leftist Jewish family in East London, died on Tuesday in Brighton, England.
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