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David Storey
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<h2 id="early-life-and-career">Early life and career</h2> <p>Storey was born on 13 July 1933 in <a href="/facts/Wakefield/dYtswDes">Wakefield</a>, <a href="/facts/West_Riding_of_Yorkshire/Tey2GKGg">West Riding of Yorkshire</a>,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> the son of a coal miner, Frank Richmond Story, and Lily (née Cartwright) Story.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> He was educated at <a href="/facts/Queen_Elizabeth_Grammar_School%2c_Wakefield/EJHBItTk">QEGS Wakefield</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> He continued his education at London's <a href="/facts/Slade_School_of_Fine_Art/rtLpaXVb">Slade School of Fine Art</a>,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a> and supported himself there by playing <a href="/facts/Rugby_league/wo9JLX7D">rugby league</a> for <a href="/facts/Leeds_Rhinos/jbkh4xzQ">Leeds RLFC</a> as a <a href="/facts/Rugby_league_positions/BnQLKKa7">halfback</a> for the "A" team, with occasional appearances in the first.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a> </p><p>His plays include <i>The Restoration of Arnold Middleton</i>, <i><a href="/facts/The_Changing_Room/mGHNdPsP">The Changing Room</a></i>, <i>Cromwell</i>, <i><a href="/facts/Home_(Storey_play)/zCH0u7G5">Home</a></i>, and <i>Stages</i>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a> His novels include <i><a href="/facts/Flight_into_Camden/SDyplR8Y">Flight into Camden</a></i>, which won the 1961 <a href="/facts/John_Llewellyn_Rhys_Prize/6dGvXjv6">John Llewellyn Rhys Prize</a> and the 1963 <a href="/facts/Somerset_Maugham_Award/mE4QPpAv">Somerset Maugham Award</a>; and <i><a href="/facts/Saville_(novel)/IgYzE7Ar">Saville</a></i>, which won the 1976 <a href="/facts/Booker_Prize/P0yfbNIl">Booker Prize</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a> </p><p>He wrote the screenplay for <i><a href="/facts/This_Sporting_Life/oQzblohS">This Sporting Life</a></i> (1963), directed by <a href="/facts/Lindsay_Anderson/epBregdU">Lindsay Anderson</a>, adapted from his first <a href="/facts/This_Sporting_Life_(novel)/mgu6HT6s">novel of the same name</a>, originally published in 1960,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a> which won the 1960 Macmillan Fiction Award.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13"><sup>13</sup></a> The film was the beginning of a long professional association with Anderson, whose film version of Storey's play <i><a href="/facts/In_Celebration_(play)/IRMy2sYz">In Celebration</a></i> was released as part of the <a href="/facts/American_Film_Theatre/bAlLcmSn">American Film Theatre</a> series in 1975. <i><a href="/facts/Home_(Storey_play)/zCH0u7G5">Home</a></i> and <i>Early Days</i> (both starred Sir <a href="/facts/Ralph_Richardson/8wl9cVhD">Ralph Richardson</a>; <i>Home</i> also starred Sir <a href="/facts/John_Gielgud/bkvhFsdz">John Gielgud</a>) were made into television films.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14"><sup>14</sup></a> </p><p>Storey's novel <i>Pasmore</i> was shortlisted for the <a href="/facts/Booker_Prize/P0yfbNIl">Booker Prize</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:15" href="#fn:15"><sup>15</sup></a> </p><p><a href="/facts/National_Life_Stories/4KQPN45w">National Life Stories</a> conducted an oral history interview (C464/67) with David Storey in 2008-2009 for its National Life Stories General collection held by the British Library.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:16" href="#fn:16"><sup>16</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="personal-life-and-death">Personal life and death</h2> <p>In 1956, Storey married Barbara Rudd Hamilton, with whom he had four children.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:17" href="#fn:17"><sup>17</sup></a> Barbara Storey died in 2015.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:18" href="#fn:18"><sup>18</sup></a> </p><p>Storey died on 27 March 2017 in London at the age of 83 and was buried on the eastern side of <a href="/facts/Highgate_Cemetery/YjfMfFUC">Highgate Cemetery</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:19" href="#fn:19"><sup>19</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:20" href="#fn:20"><sup>20</sup></a> The cause was <a href="/facts/Parkinson%2527s_disease/xpekKj6x">Parkinson's disease</a> and <a href="/facts/Dementia/T0MRDE9I">dementia</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:21" href="#fn:21"><sup>21</sup></a> Survivors include his two sons, Jake and Sean; two daughters, <a href="/facts/Helen_Storey/Rp9H43Fh">Helen</a> and <a href="/facts/Kate_Storey/oKIDRHKD">Kate</a>; a brother, Anthony; and six grandchildren.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:22" href="#fn:22"><sup>22</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:23" href="#fn:23"><sup>23</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="works">Works</h2> <h3>Novels</h3> <ul><li><i><a href="/facts/This_Sporting_Life_(novel)/mgu6HT6s">This Sporting Life</a></i> (1960) (made into the 1963 film <i><a href="/facts/This_Sporting_Life/oQzblohS">This Sporting Life</a></i>)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:24" href="#fn:24"><sup>24</sup></a></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Flight_into_Camden/SDyplR8Y">Flight into Camden</a></i> (1961) - winner of the 1963 <a href="/facts/Somerset_Maugham_Award/mE4QPpAv">Somerset Maugham Award</a></li> <li><i>Radcliffe</i> (1963)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:25" href="#fn:25"><sup>25</sup></a></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Pasmore_(novel)/CCcRC73W">Pasmore</a></i> (1972)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:26" href="#fn:26"><sup>26</sup></a> – winner of the 1973 <a href="/facts/Geoffrey_Faber_Memorial_Prize/3aDJ1Sva">Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize</a></li> <li><i>A Temporary Life</i> (1973) (<a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0140048612)</li> <li><i>Edward</i> (1973) (<a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0713906806)</li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Saville_(novel)/IgYzE7Ar">Saville</a></i> (1976) – winner of the 1976 <a href="/facts/Booker_Prize/P0yfbNIl">Booker Prize</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:27" href="#fn:27"><sup>27</sup></a></li> <li><i>A Prodigal Child</i> (1982)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:28" href="#fn:28"><sup>28</sup></a></li> <li><i>Present Times</i> (1984)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:29" href="#fn:29"><sup>29</sup></a></li> <li><i>The Phoenix</i> (1993) (novella)</li> <li><i>A Serious Man</i> (1998)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:30" href="#fn:30"><sup>30</sup></a></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/As_It_Happened_(novel)/e0sD2op4">As It Happened</a></i> (2002)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:31" href="#fn:31"><sup>31</sup></a></li> <li><i>A Star in the West</i> (1999)</li> <li><i>Thin-Ice Skater</i> (2004)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:32" href="#fn:32"><sup>32</sup></a></li></ul> <h3>Plays</h3> <ul><li><i>The Restoration of Arnold Middleton</i> (1967)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:33" href="#fn:33"><sup>33</sup></a></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/In_Celebration_(play)/IRMy2sYz">In Celebration</a></i> (1969)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:34" href="#fn:34"><sup>34</sup></a></li> <li><i>The Contractor</i> (1970)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:35" href="#fn:35"><sup>35</sup></a></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Home_(Storey_play)/zCH0u7G5">Home</a></i> (1970)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:36" href="#fn:36"><sup>36</sup></a></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/The_Changing_Room/mGHNdPsP">The Changing Room</a></i> (1973)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:37" href="#fn:37"><sup>37</sup></a></li> <li><i>The Farm</i> (1973)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:38" href="#fn:38"><sup>38</sup></a></li> <li><i>Cromwell</i> (1973) (<a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0224008716)</li> <li><i>Life Class</i> (1974)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:39" href="#fn:39"><sup>39</sup></a></li> <li><i>Mother's Day</i> (1977)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:40" href="#fn:40"><sup>40</sup></a></li> <li><i>Early Days</i> (1980)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:41" href="#fn:41"><sup>41</sup></a></li> <li><i>Sisters</i> (1980)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:42" href="#fn:42"><sup>42</sup></a></li> <li><i>The March on Russia</i> (1989)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:43" href="#fn:43"><sup>43</sup></a></li> <li><i>Stages</i> (1992)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:44" href="#fn:44"><sup>44</sup></a></li></ul> <h3>Poetry</h3> <ul><li><i>Storey's Lives: 1951–1991</i> (1992) (<a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-0224033084)</li></ul> <h3>Autobiography</h3> <ul><li><i>A Stinging Delight</i> (Faber & Faber, 2021)</li></ul> <h2 id="sources">Sources</h2> <ul><li>Harrison, Juliet Francis <i>Artistic Fictions: The Representation of the Artist Figure in Works by David Storey, <a href="/facts/John_Fowles/Cx807WKb">John Fowles</a> and Tom Stoppard</i> (Ph.D., Exeter).</li> <li>Hutchings, William, ed. <i>David Storey: A Casebook</i>. NY: Garland, 1992.</li> <li>Hutchings, William. <i>The Plays of David Storey: A Thematic Study</i>. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1988.</li> <li>Liebman, Herbert <i>The Dramatic Art of David Storey: The Journey of a Playwright</i>, Greenwood Press.</li> <li>Schafer, Stephen C. "An Overview of the Working Classes in British Feature Film from the 1960s to the 1980s: From Class Consciousness to Marginalization", <i>International Labor and Working-Class History</i> 59: 3–14.</li> <li><i>Encyclopedia of British Film</i></li> <li><i>Contemporary Authors</i></li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsS/storey-david.html">Information on Storey's plays</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170404043153/http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsS/storey-david.html">Archived</a> 4 April 2017 at the <a href="/facts/Wayback_Machine/nmQ3a6JC">Wayback Machine</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071215043841/http://www.pfd.co.uk/clients/storeyd/h-pwr.html">Biography</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"David Storey obituary". The Guardian. 27 March 2017. Retrieved 27 March 2017. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/mar/27/david-storey-obituary" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/mar/27/david-storey-obituary</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>"Cartwright". Find My Past. Retrieved 29 March 2017. <a href="http://search.findmypast.co.uk/results/world-records/england-and-wales-births-1837-2006?lastname=story&eventyear=1933&eventyear_offset=0&mothersmaidenname=cartwright" target="_blank">http://search.findmypast.co.uk/results/world-records/england-and-wales-births-1837-2006?lastname=story&eventyear=1933&eventyear_offset=0&mothersmaidenname=cartwright</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"Cartwright". Find My Past. Retrieved 29 March 2017. <a href="http://search.findmypast.com/results/world-records/england-and-wales-marriages-1837-2005?firstname=frank%20r&lastname=story&spouse1surname=cartwright" target="_blank">http://search.findmypast.com/results/world-records/england-and-wales-marriages-1837-2005?firstname=frank%20r&lastname=story&spouse1surname=cartwright</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Stade, George; Karbiener, Karen (2010). Encyclopedia of British Writers, 1800 to the Present. Vol. 2. Infobase Publishing. p. 469. ISBN 9781438116891. <a href="9781438116891" target="_blank">9781438116891</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Keating, Frank (1 December 2010). "David Storey's yarn hits 50 and is still top of the league". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 January 2016. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2010/dec/01/this-sporting-life-david-storey" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2010/dec/01/this-sporting-life-david-storey</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>"British Council:Literature". Retrieved 8 January 2016. <a href="https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/david-storey" target="_blank">https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/david-storey</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Keating, Frank (1 December 2010). "David Storey's yarn hits 50 and is still top of the league". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 January 2016. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2010/dec/01/this-sporting-life-david-storey" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2010/dec/01/this-sporting-life-david-storey</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>"British Council:Literature". Retrieved 8 January 2016. <a href="https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/david-storey" target="_blank">https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/david-storey</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>Keating, Frank (1 December 2010). "David Storey's yarn hits 50 and is still top of the league". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 January 2016. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2010/dec/01/this-sporting-life-david-storey" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2010/dec/01/this-sporting-life-david-storey</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>"British Council:Literature". Retrieved 8 January 2016. <a href="https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/david-storey" target="_blank">https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/david-storey</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:11"><p>"David Storey obituary". The Guardian. 27 March 2017. Retrieved 27 March 2017. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/mar/27/david-storey-obituary" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/mar/27/david-storey-obituary</a> <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:12"><p>"David Storey, author of This Sporting Life, dies at 83". The Guardian. 27 March 2017. Retrieved 27 March 2017. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/mar/27/david-storey-author-of-this-sporting-life-dies-aged-83" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/mar/27/david-storey-author-of-this-sporting-life-dies-aged-83</a> <a href="#fnref:12" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:13"><p>Hutchings, William (1988). The Plays of David Storey: A Thematic Study. SIU Press. p. 8. ISBN 9780809314614. <a href="9780809314614" target="_blank">9780809314614</a> <a href="#fnref:13" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:14"><p>"David Storey: Booker Prize-winning author dies at 83". BBC News. 27 March 2017. Retrieved 27 March 2017. <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39404214" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39404214</a> <a href="#fnref:14" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:15"><p>Benedict Nightingale (27 March 2017). "David Storey, British Novelist and Playwright, Dies at 83". The New York Times. Retrieved 28 March 2017. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/27/theater/david-storey-dead-british-novelest-playwright.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/27/theater/david-storey-dead-british-novelest-playwright.html</a> <a href="#fnref:15" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:16"><p>National Life Stories, Storey, David (1 of 12). National Life Story Collection: General, The British Library Board, 2009 Archived 26 October 2022 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 1 February 2018. <a href="https://sounds.bl.uk/Oral-history/Art/021M-C0464X0067XX-0001V0" target="_blank">https://sounds.bl.uk/Oral-history/Art/021M-C0464X0067XX-0001V0</a> <a href="#fnref:16" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:17"><p>Sternlicht, Sanford V. (2004). A Reader's Guide To Modern British Drama. Syracuse University Press. p. 167. ISBN 9780815630760. <a href="9780815630760" target="_blank">9780815630760</a> <a href="#fnref:17" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:18"><p>"David Storey obituary". The Guardian. 27 March 2017. Retrieved 27 March 2017. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/mar/27/david-storey-obituary" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/mar/27/david-storey-obituary</a> <a href="#fnref:18" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:19"><p>"David Storey: Booker Prize-winning author dies at 83". BBC News. 27 March 2017. Retrieved 27 March 2017. <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39404214" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39404214</a> <a href="#fnref:19" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:20"><p>"David Storey, author of This Sporting Life, dies at 83". The Guardian. 27 March 2017. Retrieved 27 March 2017. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/mar/27/david-storey-author-of-this-sporting-life-dies-aged-83" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/mar/27/david-storey-author-of-this-sporting-life-dies-aged-83</a> <a href="#fnref:20" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:21"><p>Benedict Nightingale (27 March 2017). "David Storey, British Novelist and Playwright, Dies at 83". The New York Times. Retrieved 28 March 2017. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/27/theater/david-storey-dead-british-novelest-playwright.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/27/theater/david-storey-dead-british-novelest-playwright.html</a> <a href="#fnref:21" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:22"><p>"David Storey obituary". The Guardian. 27 March 2017. 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