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Biography of David Lodge
Name: David Lodge
Birth Date: January 28, 1935
Death Date: N/A
Place of Birth: England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: author
David Lodge
The English author, David Lodge (born 1935), wrote novels that frequently reflected his class-consciousness, Catholic background, and/or his life in academia.David Lodge was born on January 28, 1935, to working-class Catholic parents, William Frederick Lodge(a saxophonist and clarinetist in dance bands) and Rosalie Murphy Lodge. They lived on the outskirts of London. As a child, he lived through the darkest days of the blitz--the German bombing attacks in 1940. Like many other schoolboys, he was evacuated to the countryside for the remainder of the war years. He grew up during postwar years of economic hardship. At age ten, he was enrolled in the St. Joseph's Academy Catholic grammar school, and entered University College, London in 1952. He graduated with a Bachelor's degree in English (with honors) in 1955 and a Masters degree in 1959. After a two-year stint in the Royal Armored Corps (1955-1957), he went on to earn a Ph.D. at the …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…written a number of distinguished books of criticism, including The Modes of Modern Writing (1977) and Working with Structuralism (1981). His next collection The Practice of Writing focuses on writing techniques needed for any practicing writer in any medium. In 1999 his Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader was published. Associated Works Changing Places, Nice Work, Small World, Souls and Bodies, The British Museum Is Falling Down Further Reading Write On: Occasional Essays, 1965-85 (1986) is a collection of Lodge's shorter pieces. An interview with David Lodge appeared in Publishers Weekly, August 18, 1989. Peter Widdowson's "The Anti-History Men" (Critical Quarterly, Winter 1984) is a critical study of Lodge and his fellow novelist Malcolm Bradbury. Other sources of biographical reference can be found in Biography on David Lodge by Angela Friend, Dictionary of Literary Biography. British Novelists Since 1960 Volume 14 part 2:H-Z and the Guide to Contemperary Novelists, The New Columbia Encyclopedia (1975), and New Statesman & Society, vol. 8, no. 352.
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