Date: 2013-08-06
David Frith has been playing, watching and writing about the sport for fifty years. He was the founding editor of Wisden Cricket Monthly and has been editor of The Cricketer. Two of his previous books, Pageant of Cricket and a biography of A.E. Stoddart, 'My Dear Victorious Stod', have won the Cricket Society Literary Award.
Date: 2013-08-06
David Frith, an award-winning cricket author, has seen almost every Ashes Test of the post-war era. His book Bodyline Autopsy (2002) was nominated for the William Hill Award, while By His Own Hand: A Study of Cricket's Suicides (1991) was recently voted one of the Observer Sport Monthly's Top 50 Sports Books of All Time. His pictorial history of England versus Australia Test matches is a classic with over 100,000 copies sold. A former editor of The Cricketer and the founder of Wisden Cricket Monthly, he lives in Guildford, Surrey.
