David Storey

David Malcolm Storey (13 July 1933 – 27 March 2017) was an English playwright, screenwriter, award-winning novelist and a former professional rugby league player. He was known for writing This Sporting Life and for screenwriting movie version. He also wrote plays most notably: Home and The Changing Room. Storey also wrote Flight into Camden and his 1976 Booker Prize-winning novel Saville.David Storey: Booker Prize-winning author dies at 83 BBC News, 27 March 2017. Retreived 27 March 2017.

Storey was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire. He studied at Slade School of Fine Art. In 1956, Storey married Barbara Rudd Hamilton, with whom he had four children. Hamilton died in 2015.

Storey died on 27 March 2017 in London from Parkinson's disease and dementia, aged 83.

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