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David John Lodge CBE (born 28 January 1935) is an English author and critic. A literature professor at the University of Birmingham until 1987, some of his novels satirise academic life, notably the "Campus Trilogy" – Changing Places : A Tale of Two Campuses (1975), Small World: An Academic Romance (1984) and Nice Work (1988).
David Lodge, English novelist, literary critic, playwright, and editor known chiefly for his satiric novels about academic life, especially Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses (1975), Small World: An Academic Romance (1984), and Nice Work (1988). Learn more about Lodge’s life and career.
David Lodge has 121 books on Goodreads with 241894 ratings. David Lodge’s most popular book is Changing Places (The Campus Trilogy, #1).
During the shifting back-and-forth course of Author, Author (2004), David Lodge’s finely elegiac novel about the later life of Henry James, ‘the old toff’ finds himself increasingly dissatisfied with his status as a literary novelist, and attempts to make a more commercial career as a dramatist on the London stage.
David Lodge makes spirited fun of all the academic stereotypes. Small World In this second book in the trilogy, the author brings the familiar characters from the first novel, Morris Zapp, Philip Swallow, and their wives Desiree and Hilary, respectively.
David Lodge is a successful playwright and screenwriter, and has adapted both his own work and other writers' novels for television. His novels include The Picturegoers (1960), The British Museum is Falling Down (1965), Changing Places (1975), Therapy (1995), Thinks... (2001), and his most recent, Deaf Sentence (2008). He lives in Birmingham.
Lodge came to the prize judging as a twice shortlisted novelist (1984 and 1988) while his Out of the Shelter (1970) was longlisted for the Lost Man Booker Prize. He is also the author of three plays and, to date, two volumes of autobiography. Born. 28 January 1935. Prizes judged. The Booker Prize 1989.
