David Storey
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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 footballer.
In 1976, he received the Booker Prize for his book Saville.
In 1960, he received the MacMillan Fiction Award for This Sporting Life.
Personal life and death
Storey married Barbara Rudd Hamilton, with whom he had four children in 1956. Barbara Storey died in 2015.
Storey died on the west side of Highgate Cemetery on March 27, 2017 in London at the age of 83. Parkinson's disease and dementia were both responsible for the illness. His two sons, Jake and Sean; two daughters, Helen and Kate; a brother, Anthony; and six grandchildren are among the survivors.
Early life and career
Storey was born in Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire, on July 13, 1933, the son of a coal miner, Frank Richmond Story, and Lily (née Cartwright) story. He was educated at QEGS Wakefield. He continued his education at Slade School of Fine Art in London and supported himself in rugby league for Leeds RLFC as a halfback, with occasional appearances in the first.
Arnold Middleton's Restoration, The Changing Room, Cromwell, Home, and Stages are among his productions. He wrote Flight into Camden, which won the 1961 John Llewellie Award and the 1963 Somerset Maugham Award, as well as Saville, which was a recipient of the 1976 Booker Prize.
He wrote the screenplay for This Sporting Life (1963), directed by Lindsay Anderson, and was based on his first book of the same name, which was published in 1960 and received the Macmillan Fiction Award. Anderson's film version of Storey's In Celebration was released as part of the American Film Theatre collection in 1975. Sir Ralph Richardson (both starred; Home starred Sir John Gield) was made into television films.
The Booker Prize was shortlisted for Storey's novel Pasmore.
In 2008-2009, National Life Stories conducted an oral history interview (C464/67) with David Storey, Director of the British Library's National Life Stories General collection.