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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 .
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.
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...
Mar 27, 2017 · D avid Storey, who has died aged 83, was a dramatist and novelist of unflinching, Lawrentian integrity who explored the divisions of class, the conflicts of body and soul, and the...
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.
There is a famous story about David Storey. It is set in 1976 at the Royal Court where, for ten years, his plays had first been seen before heading away to the West End and Broadway. That same...
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...
Set in and around the Second World War, David Storey’s tale about a boy from a mining town who grows away from his roots won the Booker Prize in 1976.
Mar 27, 2017 · David Storey was an English playwright, screenwriter, award-winning novelist and a former professional rugby league player. Storey was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire in 1933, and studied at the Slade School of Art.
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 to The New York...
