What kind of books did David Lodge write?

A professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham until 1987, he is known for novels that 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). The second two were shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

How to start an interview with David Lodge?

P oor David Lodge. The standard way to begin an interview with the author of our most hilarious postwar novels – and why should I be any exception? – is to remark that, in person, he is, well, not exactly a hoot. Jokes? He makes none.

When did David Lodge retire from the University of Birmingham?

He is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham, where he taught from 1960 until 1987, when he retired to write full-time.

How old was David Lodge when he met Henry James?

If Professor Lodge were to cast a surreptitious look at your bottom or to clasp his hand firmly on your thigh as you and he discussed structuralism or Henry James, you would faint with surprise and not only because he is now in his seventies.

Where does David Lodge’s book Rummidge take place?

‘Rummidge’ is the habitual location of his novels, defined in the author’s note to Nice Work (1988) as a place ‘which occupies, for the purposes of fiction, the space where Birmingham is to be found on maps’.

When did David Lodge write the old Toff?

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.