John OsborneBy: John Heilpern John Osborne, the original Angry Young Man, shocked and transformed British theater in the 1950s with his play Look Back in Anger. This startling biographythe first to draw on the secret notebooks in which he recorded his anguish and depressionreveals the notorious rebel in all his heartrending complexity. Through a working class childhood and five marriages, Osborne led a tumultuous life. An impossible father, he threw his teenage