Author
David Storey
Birth Date
July 13, 1933
(83 Years)
Death Date
March 27, 2017
Associated Country
United Kingdom
David Storey (1933–2017) was an English novelist, playwright, and screenwriter known for his powerful depictions of working-class life and psychological tension. He was born in Wakefield and grew up in a mining community, an experience that strongly influenced his writing.
Before becoming a full-time writer, Storey was a professional rugby league player, and his firsthand experience of the sport informed works such as This Sporting Life (1960), his debut novel, and the later play The Changing Room (1971). His writing often explores themes of masculinity, class, isolation, and emotional repression.
Storey achieved major recognition in both fiction and drama, winning the Booker Prize for his novel Saville (1976). His plays, including Home (1970) and The Changing Room, are noted for their stark realism and deep psychological insight. He is regarded as an important voice in postwar British literature and theatre.
Before becoming a full-time writer, Storey was a professional rugby league player, and his firsthand experience of the sport informed works such as This Sporting Life (1960), his debut novel, and the later play The Changing Room (1971). His writing often explores themes of masculinity, class, isolation, and emotional repression.
Storey achieved major recognition in both fiction and drama, winning the Booker Prize for his novel Saville (1976). His plays, including Home (1970) and The Changing Room, are noted for their stark realism and deep psychological insight. He is regarded as an important voice in postwar British literature and theatre.
Books
A Stinging Delight 2021
The third son of a coalminer, David Storey takes us from his tough upbringing in Wakefield, to being ‘sold’ to Leeds Rugby League Club, to his escape to the Slade School of Art and his life in...
This Sporting Life 2018
Rugby League football in an industrial northern city circa 1960 is a life of grime, mud, sweat, intrigue and naked ambition. In This Sporting Life, David Storey recounts the fortunes of gladiator hero...
Thin-Ice Skater 2015
The narrator of Storey's eleventh novel is an angst-ridden seventeen-year-old who shares intimate details of his life in the form of memos written to himself. Born in Beverly Hills, California,...
As It Happened 2015
Matthew Maddox is an art historian and professor emeritus at the Drayburgh School of Fine Art. Nearing 70, his 3 sons are grown and his ex-wife, Charlotte, has remarried. After a failed suicide...
Present Times 2015
At age 47, former playwright Frank Attercliffe lives with 2 of his 5 children in a 4-bedroom apartment on Walton Lane on the outskirts of an English suburb. For the past 3 years, his wife, Sheila, has...
A Serious Man 2015
Richard Fenchurch has had a long and successful career as a playwright, painter, and novelist. But at age 65, he is coming apart at the seams. Fearing he will do something drastic if he remains alone,...
A Prodigal Child 2015
With 2 rooms downstairs and 3 upstairs, the house at Spinney Moor Road is a real step-up for the Morley family. Arthur Morley is a farmer who frequently comes home drunk, and who often competes with...
Pasmore 2015
In his dreams, Colin Pasmore runs an endless race. No matter how hard he pumps his legs, he loses—and not just to other runners, but to every "dullard and idler" in England. Every morning, he wakes up...
A Temporary Life 2015
Colin Freestone had not planned to live in northern England. The people here are so passionate and raw that he does not expect to ever understand them or feel at ease. But when his wife, Yvonne, fell...
The Changing Room 1996
Set in the cramped, steamy confines of a rugby league team’s dressing room in northern England, The Changing Room captures the raw physicality and emotional undercurrents of working-class life. As...
Saville 1976
Spanning the early decades of the twentieth century, Saville traces the life of Colin Saville, the son of a Yorkshire miner, as he grows from childhood into adulthood amid the shifting social...