WRITER

David Storey

1933 - 2017

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David Malcolm Storey (13 July 1933 – 27 March 2017) was an English playwright, screenwriter, award-winning novelist and a professional rugby league player. He won the Booker Prize in 1976 for his novel Saville. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Storey has received more than 234,524 page views. Her biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). David Storey is the 6,008th most popular writer (down from 5,423rd in 2019), the 4,861st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,442nd in 2019) and the 544th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 230k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 43.89

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.99

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.01

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

This sporting life
Fiction, Poetry, Rugby football players
1960
Saville
Social conditions, Fiction, Man Booker Prize Winner
1976
In celebration
Catholic Church, Church history, History
1969
Radcliffe
Gay men, Fiction, Critique et interprétation
1963
1969
Flight into Camden
Fiction in English
1960

Among WRITERS

Among writers, David Storey ranks 6,008 out of 7,302. Before her are Jonathan Safran Foer, Harry Turtledove, Arthur Laurents, Paulina Chiziane, Larry Kramer, and Robert Coover. After her are Jacob Abbott, Keri Hulme, Andreas Eschbach, Sarah Waters, Philippa Pearce, and Zsigmond Kemény.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, David Storey ranks 466. Before her are Lou Albano, Michael Parenti, Janusz Sidło, Pete Wilson, Jonathan Penrose, and Raúl Sánchez. After her are Jean Boiteux, Thérèse Steinmetz, Penelope Lively, Bobby Smith, Sheila Hancock, and Michael Novak. Among people deceased in 2017, David Storey ranks 495. Before her are Boris Nikolov, Józef Grudzień, Norman Johnson, Peter Sallis, Marc Baecke, and Paul Falk. After her are Nils Nilsson, Thomas Starzl, Bernie Casey, Miriam Rodríguez Martínez, Marino Perani, and Václav Machek.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, David Storey ranks 4,861 out of 8,785. Before her are Andrew Ainslie Common (1841), Æthelberht II of East Anglia (800), Dawn French (1957), Guy Berryman (1978), Derek Kevan (1935), and Richard Ashcroft (1971). After her are Stuart Baird (1947), Phil Anderson (1958), Shirley Stelfox (1941), Danny Ward (1993), Gia Scala (1934), and Anthony de la Roché (1700).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, David Storey ranks 544. Before her are Edmund Gosse (1849), William Bell Scott (1811), George Holyoake (1817), Francis Chichester (1901), Alex Garland (1970), and Lucy Hawking (1969). After her are Sarah Waters (1966), Philippa Pearce (1920), Sarah Trimmer (1741), Anne Fine (1947), Izaak Walton (1593), and Ivy Compton-Burnett (1884).

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