Stephen Chalke

Who is Stephen Chalke?

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. He works for the Open University.

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 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.