David Lodge

David Lodge is a distinguished author of literature and fiction, who was born in London. He is a graduate of University College London and was also made an Honorary Fellow of the institution. Lodge's professional career began at Birmingham University, where he taught English Literature from 1960 to 1987. After his retirement from teaching, he became a full-time writer.

As an Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham, Lodge has made significant contributions to the academic community. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and his scholarship in the field of literary criticism mainly focuses on the English and American novel, as well as literary theory. In addition to his critical work, Lodge is the author of "The Art of Fiction" (1992), a collection of articles that were first published in the Independent on Sunday.

Lodge has also achieved success as a playwright and screenwriter. He has adapted both his own work and that of other writers for television, including his novels "The Picturegoers" (1960), "The British Museum is Falling Down" (1965), "Changing Places" (1975), "Therapy" (1995), "Thinks..." (2001), and "Deaf Sentence" (2008). Lodge currently resides in Birmingham.
The Campus Books
# Title Year
1 Changing Places 1975
2 Small World 1984
3 Nice Work 1988
Standalone Novels
# Title Year
1 The Picturegoers 1960
2 Ginger, You're Barmy 1962
3 The British Museum Is Falling Down 1965
4 Out of the Shelter 1970
5 How Far Can You Go? 1980
6 Paradise News 1991
7 Therapy 1995
8 Surprised by Summer 1996
9 Thinks . . . 2001
10 Author, Author 2004
11 Deaf Sentence 2008
12 A Man of Parts 2011
Short Stories/Novellas
# Title Year
1 Home Truths 1999
Plays
# Title Year
1 The Writing Game 1991
2 Secret Thoughts 2011
Collections
# Title Year
1 The Man Who Wouldn't Get Up and Other Stories 1997
2 Scenes of Academic Life 2005
Non-Fiction Books
# Title Year
1 Language of Fiction 1966
2 Graham Greene 1966
3 Jane Austen, Emma 1968
4 The Novelist At The Crossroads 1971
5 Evelyn Waugh 1971
6 20th Century Literary Criticism 1972
7 The Modes of Modern Writing 1977
8 Working with Structuralism 1981
9 Write On 1986
10 Modern Criticism and Theory 1988
11 After Bakhtin 1990
12 The Art of Fiction 1992
13 The Practice of Writing 1996
14 Consciousness and the Novel 2002
15 The Year of Henry James 2006
16 Lives in Writing 2014
17 Quite A Good Time to be Born 2015
18 Writer's Luck 2018
19 Varying Degrees of Success 2021
David Lodge Anthologies
# Title Year
1 The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories 1987