Author of This Sporting Life whose raw, realistic plays and novels reflected on family, atonement and the north-south divideDavid Storey, who has died aged 83, was an unusual literary figure in being as well known for writing novels as he was for writing plays, never claiming that one discipline was harder or easier than the other, but achieving distinction in both, often overlapping, fields. He sprang to prominence …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AM on March 27, 2017