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| | BookRags: David (Malcolm) Storey Biography |
 | | For a number of years before he wrote plays, David Storey was known as a novelist, one of the voices of the working class in the English Midlands and the North, like Alan Sillitoe and Stan Barstow, who came into prominence in the late 1950s and early 1960s. |
 | | Storey's first novel, This Sporting Life (1960), which won the Macmillan Fiction Prize, used his experience as a professional athlete playing for a Leeds rugby club from 1952 to 1956. |
 | | Again, the background in the novel is like Storey's, for he is the third son of a Yorkshire miner, Frank R..... |
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