David Storey

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. He also won the MacMillan Fiction Award for This Sporting Life in 1960.

Early life and career Storey was born on 13 July 1933 in Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire, He was educated at QEGS Wakefield. He continued his education at London's Slade School of Fine Art, The film was the beginning of a long professional association with Anderson, whose film version of Storey's play In Celebration was released as part of the American Film Theatre series in 1975. Home and Early Days (both starred Sir Ralph Richardson; Home also starred Sir John Gielgud) were made into television films.

Personal life

In 1956, Storey married Barbara Rudd Hamilton, with whom he had four children. Barbara Storey died in 2015.

Storey died on 27 March 2017 in London at the age of 83 and was buried on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery. The cause was Parkinson's disease and dementia. Survivors included his two sons, Jake and Sean; two daughters, Helen and Kate; a brother, Anthony; and six grandchildren. A Star in the West (1999) Thin-Ice Skater (2004) Early Days (1980) The March on Russia (1989)

Poetry Storey's Lives: 1951–1991 (1992)

Autobiography A Stinging Delight (Faber and Faber, 2021)