Robert Winder, formerly

literary editor A literary editor is an editor in a newspaper, magazine or similar publication who deals with aspects concerning literature and books, especially reviews.

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'' for five years and Deputy Editor of ''

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'' 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. Winder is a team member of the Gaieties Cricket Club, whose chairman was

Harold Pinter Harold Pinter (; 10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. A Nobel Prize winner, Pinter was one of the most influential modern British dramatists with a writing career that span ...

.Robert Winder and Ian Smith
"More Team Members"
(page 3), "Cricket" sec., ''haroldpinter.org'', accessed 1 November 2007.

Publications

;Fiction *''No Admission''. Penguin Crime Fiction ser.

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, 1990. (Paperback rpt.) (10) (13). *''The Marriage of Time and Convenience''. Fontana Press, 1988. (10). (13). *''The Final Act of Mr. Shakespeare''. Little, Brown, 2010. . ;Non-fiction *''Bloody Foreigners: The Story of Immigration to Britain''.

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, 2004. Abacus, 2005. (10). (13). *''Hell for Leather: A Modern Cricket Journey''.

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, 1996. (10). (13). *''The Little Wonder: The Remarkable History of

Wisden ''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'', or simply ''Wisden'', colloquially the Bible of Cricket, is a cricket reference book published annually in the United Kingdom. The description "bible of cricket" was first used in the 1930s by Alec Waugh in a ...

''. Wisden, 2013. (10). (13) *''The Last Wolf: The Hidden Springs Of Englishness''.

, 2017. ;Poetry
"Two O'clock, Putney Heath in August"
– Poem © Robert Winder. In "Literature of the Gaieties", ''haroldpinter.org''. ;Selected book reviews
"A Dying Game"
''

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'', 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 58: Ambition''. (Contents from the archive; Winder's "Editorial" is not available online.)

Notes

References

*"Biographical Notes". 69–73 in ''Harold Pinter: A Celebration''. Introd.

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. London:

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, 2000. (10). (13).

External links

"Robert Winder"
– ''Meet the Author'' feature: Robert Winder on ''Bloody Foreigners'' (2004). (Audio file.) Living people 20th-century British novelists 21st-century British novelists British non-fiction writers British male journalists British magazine editors British newspaper editors British literary editors Cricket historians and writers British male novelists 20th-century British male writers 21st-century British male writers Year of birth missing (living people) {{UK-journalist-stub