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David Malcolm Storey (13 July 1933 – 27 March 2017) was an English playwright, screenwriter, award-winning novelist and a professional rugby league player. He won the Booker Prize in 1976 for his novel Saville .
Jul 9, 2024 · David Storey was an English novelist and playwright whose brief professional rugby career and lower-class background provided material for the simple, powerful prose that won him early recognition as an accomplished storyteller and dramatist.
Mar 27, 2017 · An obituary on Tuesday about the novelist and playwright David Storey misstated his place in his family’s birth order. He was the second-youngest of four brothers, one of whom died as a toddler...
Learn about the life and works of David Storey, a novelist and playwright who won the Booker Prize for Saville and explored themes of class, sport, art and mental breakdown. Find his biography, critical perspective, bibliography and awards on this web page.
The Spectator reviews A Stinging Delight, the final book by the author of Saville and This Sporting Life. It reveals his lifelong struggle with depression, grief and guilt, and his passion for writing and painting.
David Storey, who has died at the age of 83, was the last of the Angry Young Men who, in fiction and drama, made a hero of the working-class Northerner.
Mar 27, 2017 · David Storey was an English playwright, screenwriter, award-winning novelist and a former professional rugby league player. Storey was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire in 1933, and studied at the Slade School of Art.
