Biography
David Lodge was born into a Catholic family in Brockley in south east London. His father was a saxophonist in a dance band, and later became a TV extra. Lodge's first published novel The Picturegoers (1960) draws on his early experiences in 'Brickley' (based on Brockley), and he revisits them again in a later novel, Therapy. World War II forced Lodge and his mother to evacuate to Surrey and Cornwall. He attended school at the Catholic St Joseph's Academy, Blackheath.
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