David Storey

David Malcolm Storey (born 13 July 1933), the son of a miner, is an English playwright, screenwriter, award winning novelist and a former professional Rugby League player.

Born in Wakefield. Yorkshire and educated at QEGS Wakefield and at the Slade School of Fine Art, London, his plays include The Restoration of Arnold Middleton, The Changing Room, Cromwell, Home and Stages.

Storey wrote the screenplay adaptation for the film of his first novel, This Sporting Life (1960), directed by Lindsay Anderson (1963). The film version of Storey's play In Celebration (directed by Lindsay Anderson) was released as part of the American Film Theatre series in 1975. Home and Early Days (both also directed by Anderson and both starring Sir Ralph Richardson) were made into television films.

Storey's novels include, This Sporting Life which won the 1960 Macmillan Fiction Award; Flight into Camden, which won the 1963 Somerset Maugham Award; and the 1961 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize; and Saville, which won the 1976 Booker Prize

Style

Storey's novels are often perceived as belonging to the realist tradition, with long descriptive passages detailing many items that appear, at least superficially, to play no role in furthering the plot. Much of his work features isolated men trying to escape or connect.

Works

• This Sporting Life (1960) (made into the 1963 film This Sporting Life)
• Flight into Camden (1961)
• Radcliffe (1963)
• The Restoration of Arnold Middleton (1967)
• In Celebration (1969)
• The Contractor (1970)
• Home (1970)
• The Changing Room (1972)
• Pasmore (1972)
• The Farm (1973)
• Cromwell (1973)
• A Temporary Life (1973)
• Edward (1973)
• Life Class (1975)
• Saville (1976)
• Mother's Day (1977)
• Early Days (1980)
• Sisters (1980)
• A Prodigal Child (1982)
• Present Times (1984)
• The March on Russia (1989)
• Storey's Lives: 1951-1991 (1992)
• A Serious Man (1998)
• As it Happened (2002)

References

• Harrison, Juliet Francis Artistic Fictions: The Representation of the Artist Figure in Works by David Storey, John Fowles and Tom Stoppard (Ph.D., Exeter).
• Hutchings, William, ed. David Storey: A Casebook. NY: Garland, 1992.
• Hutchings, William. The Plays of David Storey: A Thematic Study. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1988.
• Liebman, Herbert The Dramatic Art of David Storey: The Journey of a Playwright, Greenwood Press.
• Schafer, Stephen C. "An Overview of the Working Classes in British Feature Film from the 1960s to the 1980s: From Class Consciousness to Marginalization", International Labor and Working-Class History 59: 3-14.
• Encyclopedia of British Film
• Contemporary Authors

External links

• Information on Storey's plays
• Biography