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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. He also won the MacMillan Fiction Award for This Sporting Life in 1960.
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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Mar 27, 2017 · LONDON — David Storey, a British writer who drew on his experiences as a miner’s son, a farmworker, an art student, a professional rugby player and a teacher to create novels and plays that won...
- Benedict Nightingale
Mar 28, 2017 · David Storey, one of Britain’s leading dramatists as well as a Booker Prize-winning novelist whose autobiographical “This Sporting Life,” about a rugby player’s struggle to escape his...
- Matt Schudel
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.
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.
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David Storey, the British-born son of a miner who became a rugby player, art student, novelist, and Tony-nominated playwright, died March 27 at the age of 83, according...
