David Storey

David Malcolm Storey (born 13 July 1933 in Wakefield, Yorkshire) is an English playwright, screenwriter, award-winning novelist and a former professional rugby league player.

Storey was the son of a Yorkshire miner and was educated at QEGS Wakefield. He continued his education at the Slade School of Fine Art, London and supported himself there by playing rugby for Leeds RLFC (now Leeds Rhinos) where he played half-back for the A-team, with occasional appearances with the first. His plays include The Restoration of Arnold Middleton, The Changing Room, Cromwell, Home and Stages.

Between 1956 and 1961 David lived in a second floor flat at 45,Marchmont Street, Bloomsbury, London

Storey also wrote the screenplay for This Sporting Life (1963), directed by Lindsay Anderson, adapted from his first novel of the same name, originally published in 1960, which won the 1960 Macmillan Fiction Award. 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.

Storey's novels include Flight into Camden, which won the 1963 Somerset Maugham Award;

and the 1961 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize; and Saville, which won the 1976 Booker Prize.

• This Sporting Life (1960) (made into the 1963 film This Sporting Life)
• Flight into Camden (1961)
• Radcliffe (1963)
• The Restoration of Arnold Middleton (1967)
• In Celebration (1969)
• The Contractor (1970)
• Home (1970)
• The Changing Room (1971)
• Pasmore (1972) - winner of the 1973 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize
• The Farm (1973)
• Cromwell (1973)
• A Temporary Life (1973)
• Edward (1973)
• Life Class (1975)
• Saville (1976) - winner of the 1976 Booker Prize
• Mother's Day (1977)
• Early Days (1980)
• Sisters (1980)
• A Prodigal Child (1982)
• Present Times (1984)
• The March on Russia (1989)
• Storey's Lives: 1951-1991 (1992)
• A Serious Man (1998)
• As it Happened (2002)