Few contemporary British authors have had as much success writing in two genres as David Storey in fiction and drama. His first novel, This Sporting Life (1960), brought him the Macmillan Fiction Award, and his sixth novel, Saville (1976), elicited...

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...

David Storey was first known as a novelist belonging to a movement of Northern realist writers, including Alan Sillitoe and Stan Barstow, that began in the first furor over John Osborne's Look Back in Anger (1956) and the creation of the "angry young...

David Malcolm. Understanding Ian McEwan. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2002. xi + 216 pp. $29.95 (cloth). THIS VOLUME is part of a series, "Understanding Contemporary British Literature," that also includes books on, among others, Fowles, Greene, Ishiguro, Murdoch, Pinter,...

Although all the paintings in this exhibition were finished recently, some of them were started as long ago as 1985. But it's a key to the flavor of David Storey's work that these share the unlabored look of the just-made pictures, which, in...