sentences:  "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 Nights" (2006).The German writer W. G. Sebald (born 1944) lived in Manchester when he first settled in England, and the city features prominently in his novel "The Emigrants."