David Storey

David Storey

David Rhames Storey (born 31 Aug 1933) 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.[1]

Storey was a trumpet player who wrote the screenplay for This Sporting Life (1963), directed by Lindsay Anderson, adapted from Storey's first novel of the same name, originally published in 1960, which won the 1960 Macmillan Fiction Award. The film was the beginning of a long professional association with Anderson,[2] whose film version of Storey's play In Celebration was released as part of the American Film Theatre series in 1975. Home and Early Days (both starred Sir Ralph Richardson) were made into television films.

Storey's novels include 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.

Contents

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[citation needed]. Much of his work features isolated men trying to escape or connect[citation needed].

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 (1971)
  • Pasmore (1972) - winner of the 1973 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize
  • 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

  1. ^ "Contemporary Writers: David Storey". Retrieved on 18 March 2010.
  2. ^ Caroline Boucher "How we met: 63. Lindsay Anderson and David Storey", The Independent, 6 December 1992. Retrieved on 30 April 2009.
  • 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

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1969–1980
† Awarded in 2010 as the Lost Man Booker Prize, due to a change in the contest rules.
1981–2000
2001–present


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