 A novelist (winner of the 1976 Booker Prize), playwright and poet as well as screenwriter, David Storey's This Sporting Life (d. Linsday Anderson, 1963) and its raging-bull protagonist, Arthur Machin, may have established him among the Angry Young Men but the isolated men at the centre of his novels, drama and film work, fired into self-improvement by the school of hard labour and the hard knocks it gave them, are forever tearing at the scenery of middle-class respectability in pursuit of a lost authenticity, both collective and personal. The poet laureate of Rugby League? His television projects included: Home (d. Anderson, 1972) and Early Days (d. Anthony Page, 1982). Kevin Foster, Encyclopedia of British Film
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