Stephen Chalke
Encyclopedia
Stephen Chalke is an English
author
and publisher. In an article in the 2010 edition of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack
, he is identified as "an author, publisher and captain of the Winsley Third XI".
He has two undergraduate degrees - one in Drama, English and Philosophy, the other in Mathematics
- and a postgraduate degree in English Literature
. He has taught in adult, further and higher education, but in the past twelve years has increasingly concentrated on writing and publishing.
Through his private publishing firm Fairfield Books, he has written and published several highly acclaimed biographical and historical cricket books. His collaboration with the late Geoffrey Howard At the Heart of English Cricket won the 2002 Cricket Society Book of the Year Award
, and he has twice won the Wisden Book of the Year award: in 2004 with No Coward Soul (his biography of Bob Appleyard, co-written with Derek Hodgson) and in 2008 with Tom Cartwright - The Flame Still Burns. In 2009 he won the National Sporting Club's Cricket Book of the Year with 'The Way It Was - Glimpses of English Cricket's Past', a collection of more than 100 articles written for The Wisden Cricketer, Wisden Cricket Monthly and The Times. He also works for the Open University
.
In the 2010 edition of Wisden, he contributed a 10-page article on English cricket and the Second World War.
England
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author
Author
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and publisher. In an article in the 2010 edition of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack is a cricket reference book published annually in the United Kingdom...
, he is identified as "an author, publisher and captain of the Winsley Third XI".
He has two undergraduate degrees - one in Drama, English and Philosophy, the other in Mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
- and a postgraduate degree in English Literature
English literature
English literature is the literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by writers not necessarily from England; for example, Robert Burns was Scottish, James Joyce was Irish, Joseph Conrad was Polish, Dylan Thomas was Welsh, Edgar Allan Poe was American, J....
. He has taught in adult, further and higher education, but in the past twelve years has increasingly concentrated on writing and publishing.
Through his private publishing firm Fairfield Books, he has written and published several highly acclaimed biographical and historical cricket books. His collaboration with the late Geoffrey Howard At the Heart of English Cricket won the 2002 Cricket Society Book of the Year Award
The Cricket Society
The Cricket Society is a charitable organisation founded in 1945 as the Society of Cricket Statisticians at Great Scotland Yard, London. It has grown steadily to be the largest body of its kind in the cricket world...
, and he has twice won the Wisden Book of the Year award: in 2004 with No Coward Soul (his biography of Bob Appleyard, co-written with Derek Hodgson) and in 2008 with Tom Cartwright - The Flame Still Burns. In 2009 he won the National Sporting Club's Cricket Book of the Year with 'The Way It Was - Glimpses of English Cricket's Past', a collection of more than 100 articles written for The Wisden Cricketer, Wisden Cricket Monthly and The Times. He also works for the Open University
Open University
The Open University is a distance learning and research university founded by Royal Charter in the United Kingdom...
.
In the 2010 edition of Wisden, he contributed a 10-page article on English cricket and the Second World War.
Publications
- Runs in the Memory (1997), Frank Keating's "Guardian Book of the Year"The GuardianThe Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
- Caught in the Memory (1999)
- One More Run (2000) (with Bryan 'Bomber' WellsBryan Wells (cricketer)Bryan Douglas "Bomber" Wells was an English cricketer.Wells was born and raised in Gloucester, and educated at local school Linden Road Secondary. He was a right-handed tail-end batsman and off-break bowler who played in 302 first-class matches between 1951 and 1965, for Gloucestershire and...
) - At the Heart of English Cricket (2001) (with Geoffrey Howard), Winner of the Cricket Society Book of the YearThe Cricket SocietyThe Cricket Society is a charitable organisation founded in 1945 as the Society of Cricket Statisticians at Great Scotland Yard, London. It has grown steadily to be the largest body of its kind in the cricket world...
- Guess My Story - The Life and Opinions of Keith Andrew, Cricketer (2003)
- No Coward Soul (2003) (with Derek Hodgson), Winner of the Wisden Book of the Year
- Ken Taylor - Drawn to Sport (2006)
- A Summer of Plenty - George Herbert Hirst in the Summer of 1906 (2006)
- Tom Cartwright - The Flame Still Burns (2007), Winner of the Wisden Book of the Year
- Five Five Five - Holmes and Sutcliffe in 1932 (2007)
- The Way It Was - Glimpses of English Cricket's Past (2008), Winner of the National Sporting Club Cricket Book of the Year