LONDON — David Lodge, a witty and prolific British novelist and critic who gently satirized academia, religion and even his own loss of hearing in such highly praised narratives as the Booker ...

But in fact the demise of David Lodge will be a huge blow to countless readers. Here was a novelist who had a day job as a professor at the University of Birmingham and wrote comic tales about ...

His father had worked for a time at the Silver Slipper nightclub, where Evelyn Waugh and the Bright Young Things of the 1920s posed and reposed. Mr. Lodge recalled his childhood as happy ...