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, whose chairman was the late Harold Pinter.
"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.)