David Storey

David Storey
BornDavid Malcolm Story
(1933-07-13)13 July 1933
Wakefield, Yorkshire, England
Died27 March 2017(2017-03-27) (aged 83)
London, England
OccupationNovelist
EducationQueen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield
Alma materSlade School of Fine Art
GenreNovelist, playwright, screenwriter
Notable awardsBooker Prize (1976)

David Malcolm Storey (13 July 1933 – 27 March 2017) was an English playwright, screenwriter, award-winning novelist and a former professional rugby league player. He was known for writing This Sporting Life and for screenwriting movie version. He also wrote plays most notably: Home and The Changing Room. Storey also wrote Flight into Camden and his 1976 Booker Prize-winning novel Saville.[1]

Storey was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire. He studied at Slade School of Fine Art. In 1956, Storey married Barbara Rudd Hamilton, with whom he had four children.[2] Hamilton died in 2015.[3]

Storey died on 27 March 2017 in London from Parkinson's disease and dementia, aged 83.[4][5]

References

  1. ↑ David Storey: Booker Prize-winning author dies at 83 BBC News, 27 March 2017. Retreived 27 March 2017.
  2. ↑ Sternlicht, Sanford V. (2004). A Reader's Guide To Modern British Drama. Syracuse University Press. p. 167. ISBN 9780815630760.
  3. ↑ "David Storey obituary". The Guardian. 27 March 2017. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
  4. ↑ "David Storey, author of This Sporting Life, dies at 83". The Guardian. 27 March 2017. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
  5. ↑ Benedict Nightingale (27 March 2017). "David Storey, British Novelist and Playwright, Dies at 83". The New York Times. Retrieved 28 March 2017.

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