His sense of duality also manifests itself as guilt about the rejection of a code that values physical work above mental work and as the consciousness of a split between "a masculine temperament" that he associated with the industrial north and "a woman's sensibility and responses" that he discovered in "the intuitive, poetic and perhaps precious world to which I felt I had escaped."
Storey graduated from the Slade with a diploma in fine arts. In 1956 he married Barbara Rudd Hamilton, with whom he had two sons and two daughters. He also was released from his fourteen-year rugby contract that same year. Storey began working as a substitute teacher in the gritty East End area of London in 1957; the experience was not a good one, and Storey became depressed. Discouraged because This Sporting Life had not yet been accepted for publication, he wrote in 1959 the first draft of a play titled "To Die with the Philistines," into which he poured his feelings of frustration and despair. The publication of three prizewinning novels--This Sporting Life, which received the Macmillan Prize; Flight into Camden, winner of the Rhys Memorial Award; and Radcliffe (1963), which won the Somerset Maugham Award--meant that the script was put aside, until Lindsay Anderson showed an interest in it when he was directing the motion picture of This Sporting Life in 1963.
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