David Storey

1933–2017

English novelist and playwright born in Wakefield. While studying at the Slade School of Fine Art in London he played rugby league for Leeds. His first novel, This Sporting Life (1960), drew on that world and won the Macmillan Fiction Award; he also wrote the screenplay for the 1963 film. Flight into Camden won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, and Pasmore received the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. His plays include In Celebration, Home and The Changing Room. He died in London in March 2017. Saville won the 1976 Booker Prize.

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