Playwright David Storey was so tormented by his own intelligence he took up rugby just to prove he was no coward — then wrote his best known work in the lavatory. Now his memoirs reveal the trauma of a man: Too clever to be happy David Storey, born in 1933, from Wakefield, is best known for This Sporting Life Family have selected and edited memoirs from material left after his death Reveals he was a man filled with self‑disgust and guilt about being clever