David Storey

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David Malcolm Storey (born 13 July 1933) is an English playwright, screenwriter and award winning novelist.

Born in Wakefield. Yorkshire, his plays include The Changing Room, Cromwell, Home and Stages. The film version of Storey's play "In Celebration" (directed by Lindsay Anderson) was released as part of the American Film Theatre series in 1975. Home and "Early Days" (both also directed by Anderson and both starring Sir Ralph Richardson) were made into television films. Storey wrote the screenplay adaptation of his first novel, This Sporting Life (1960), directed by Lindsay Anderson (1963).

Storey's novels include Saville, which won the 1976 Booker Prize, This Sporting Life, which won the 1960 Macmillan Fiction Award and, Flight into Camden, which won the 1963 Somerset Maugham Award and the 1961 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.

[edit] Style

Storey's novels are in the realist tradition, with long descriptive passages detailing many items that appear at least superficially to play no role in furthering the plot. Much of his work features isolated men trying to escape or connect.

[edit] References

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
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