Storey, David

Storey, David

▪ British writer
in full  David Malcolm Storey 
born July 13, 1933, Wakefield, Yorkshire, Eng.

      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.

      After completing his schooling at Wakefield at age 17, Storey signed a 15-year contract with the Leeds Rugby League Club; he also won a scholarship to the Slade School of Fine Art in London. When the conflict between rugby and painting became too great, he paid back three-quarters of his signing-on fee, and Leeds let him go.

      Storey's first published novel, This Sporting Life (1960), is his best-known. It is the story of a professional rugby player and his affair with his widowed landlady. Storey wrote the script for a film based on the novel and directed by Lindsay Anderson in 1966. Other novels followed: Flight into Camden (1960), about an independent young woman who defies her mining family; Radcliffe (1963), about the struggle for power in a homosexual relationship; Pasmore (1972), on the regeneration of a man who had given himself up for lost; and Saville (1976, Booker Prize), an autobiographical account of the breaking away of a coal miner's son from village life. Later novels include A Prodigal Child (1982), Present Times (1984), A Serious Man (1998), As It Happened (2002), and Thin-Ice Skater (2004).

      Storey also established a reputation as a playwright. His first play, The Restoration of Arnold Middleton (performed 1966), won immediate recognition. In Celebration (performed 1969; filmed 1974), directed by Anderson, returned to a recurring Storey theme: the impossibility of making a clean break with one's lower-class roots and background. Later plays include The Contractor (performed 1969); Home (1970), set in an insane asylum; The Changing Room (1971), set in the changing room of a semiprofessional rugby team; Life Class (1974), about a failed art master; Mother's Day (1976); Sisters (1978); Early Days (1980); and The March on Russia (1989).

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