DAVID FOOT
David
Foot
was born in East Coker in 1929. He has been a journalist for more than sixty
years – on the Western Gazette and Bristol
Evening World before becoming a freelance. For many years he has written for
the Western Daily Press, the Bristol
Evening Post and the Guardian. He
has been a music reviewer for Melody Maker
and a columnist for Wisden Cricket Monthly
and The Wisden Cricketer.
His
books on cricket have been widely praised. A poll of leading cricket writers
recently voted Harold Gimblett –
Tormented Genius of Cricketer the fifth best cricket book of all time. Beyond
Bat and Ball, a set of eleven portraits of cricketers, won The Cricket
Society’s Book of the Year award in 1993, and Wally
Hammond – The Reasons Why was short-listed for the William Hill Sports
Book of the Year in 1996.
Country
Reporter,
a novel based on his early years as a journalist, was described by The
Independent as ‘the most charming book of 1992’. It has come
tantalisingly close to being turned into a television serial.
Footsteps
from East Coker
is his twenty-fifth book.
Married
with two children, six grandchildren and a great grandson, he lives with his
wife Anne in north