David Lodge (born January 28, 1935 at London, England) is a British author.

Biography

Lodge studied at University College London, obtaining a BA in 1955 and an MA in 1959. He went on to obtain a PhD at the University of Birmingham, taught English at the University of Birmingham from 1960 until 1987, when he retired to become a full-time writer. He retains the title of Honorary Professor of Modern English Literature at the University and continues to live in Birmingham.

Lodge's novels often satirize academia in general, and the humanities in particular. Many of his characters are Roman Catholic, and their Catholicism is also one of his themes.

His fictional locales include the town of "Rummidge", modeled after Birmingham, and the equally imaginary US state of "Euphoria", situated between the states of "North California" and "South California". Euphoria's State University is located in the city of "Plotinus", right across the Bay from "Esseph", and is a thinly disguised version of Berkeley, California.

Several of his novels—in particular, Small World and Nice Work—have been adapted into television series.

Awards and recognition

• Winner of the Hawthornden Prize and the Yorkshire Post Fiction Prize for Changing Places
• Whitbread Book of the Year (1980) for How Far Can You Go?
• Shortlisted for the Booker Prize (1984) for Small World
• Shortlisted for the Booker Prize (1988) for Nice Work
• Winner of the Sunday Express Book of the Year Award (1988) for Nice Work
• Regional winner and finalist for the Commonwealth Writers Prize (1996) for Therapy
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

Bibliography

Fiction

• The Picturegoers - 1960
• Ginger You're Barmy - 1962
• The British Museum Is Falling Down - 1965
• Out of the Shelter - 1970
• Changing Places - 1975
• How Far Can You Go? (US edition: Souls and Bodies) - 1980
• Small World: An Academic Romance - 1984
• Up the Ladder to Obscurity - 1986
• Nice Work - 1988
• Paradise News - 1991
• Therapy - 1995
• Surprised by Summer - 1996
• Home Truths - (novella) 1999
• Thinks ... - 2001
• Author, Author - 2004

Non-fiction

• Language of Fiction - 1966
• The Novelist at the Crossroads - 1971
• The Modes of Modern Writing - 1977
• Write On - 1986
• The Art of Fiction - 1992
• The Practice of Writing - 1997
• Consciousness and the Novel - 2003

Theatre

• The Writing Game - 1990

Adaptations for Television

• Nice Work - 1988
• Martin Chuzzlewit - 1994
• The Writing Game - 1995

External links

• Biography