David Malcolm Storey, the third son of Frank, a coal miner, and Lily Cartwright Storey, was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, on 13 July 1933. David Storey attended Queen Elizabeth Grammar School in Wakefield from 1943 to 1951 and then entered Wakefield School of Art in 1951. At first he was drawn toward painting, and to help finance his way through the local art college he signed a contract in 1952 as a professional rugby league footballer with Leeds. When he won a scholarship to study at the Slade School of Fine Art in London in 1953, he was still bound by this contract and for some time was obliged to return to Yorkshire every weekend to play rugby. In a talk for British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) radio in 1963, he described his regular train journeys north from an artistic life in the capital to take part in "an extremely hard game" that was "almost an extension of the experience that a man undergoes in digging coal underground." The consequent sense of duality--of being "continually torn between the two extremes of my experience, the physical and the spiritual"--runs through much of his literary work.
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