DAVID FOOT
David Foot has worked for over fifty years as a journalist and writes regularly on cricket for The Guardian and The Observer. For 25 years he has written a sports column for the Western Daily Press.
He has written twenty-three books. Beyond Bat and Ball (1993) won the Cricket Society’s Annual Literary Award, and Wally Hammond - The Reasons Why (1996) was short-listed for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year. He has a fascination with characters who do not fit easily into their social mould, with Harold Gimblett - Tormented Genius of Cricket (1982) and Cricket’s Unholy Trinity (1985) both reflecting on complex personalities.
He was born in East Coker, near Yeovil, and lives in Bristol, and his West Country roots are never far from his work. He has written a history of Somerset cricket, Sunshine, Sixes and Cider (1986), and a set of profiles of Gloucestershire and Somerset players, From Grace To Botham (1980).
He has collaborated on autobiographies with Viv Richards, Bill Andrews, Zaheer Abbas and the umpire David Shepherd.
He has also written a highly entertaining account of his own early days in journalism, Country Reporter (1992).
He is married with two grown-up children.