Robert Winder
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Robert Winder, formerly Literary Editor of The Independent for five years and Deputy Editor of Granta magazine during the late 1990s, is the author of Hell for Leather, a book about modern cricket, a book about British immigration, and also two novels ("Biographical Notes" 73) as well as many articles and book reviews in British periodicals. He is a team member of the Gaieties Cricket Club (Chairman: Harold Pinter).[1]
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[edit] Publications
- Fiction
- No Admission. Penguin Crime Fiction ser. Penguin Group (USA), 1990. (Paperback rpt.) ISBN 0140093249 (10) ISBN 978-0140093247 (13).
- The Marriage of Time and Convenience. Fontana Press, 1988. ISBN 0006175880 (10). ISBN 978-0006175889 (13).
- Non-fiction
- Bloody Foreigners: The Story of Immigration to Britain. Little, Brown, 2004. Abacus, 2005. ISBN 0349115664 (10). ISBN 9780349115665 (13).
- Hell for Leather: A Modern Cricket Journey. Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1996. ISBN 0575060859 (10). ISBN 978-0575060852 (13).
- Poetry
- "Two O'clock, Putney Heath in August" – Poem © Robert Winder. In "Literature of the Gaieties", haroldpinter.org.
- Selected book reviews
- "A Dying Game". The New Statesman 19 June 2000. ("Why would a cricketer commit suicide? Robert Winder reads the lives of three great former players and is bewildered by their self-absorption and petty obsessions.")
- Selected editorials for Granta
- Granta 58: Ambition (Contents from the archive; Winder's "Editorial" is not available online.)
[edit] Notes
- ^ Robert Winder and Ian Smith, "More Team Members" (page 3), "Cricket" sec., haroldpinter.org, accessed November 1, 2007.
[edit] References
- "Biographical Notes". 69–73 in Harold Pinter: A Celebration. Introd. Richard Eyre. London: Faber and Faber, 2000. ISBN 0571206611 (10). ISBN 9780571206612 (13).
[edit] External links
- "Robert Winder" – Archive of articles by Robert Winder published in The Independent at FindArticles.com.
- "Robert Winder" – Archive of articles by Robert Winder published in The New Statesman.
- "Robert Winder" – Archive of articles by Robert Winder published in Prospect.
- "Robert Winder" – Meet the Author feature: Robert Winder on Bloody Foreigners (2004). (Audio file.)

