The Literary Cricketers

‘The Literary Cricketers’ is the untold story of cricket’s central role in a slice of London’s literary world, from the 1880s to the 1960s. It wasn’t simply that lots of important writers happened to like playing cricket together. The very act of playing for the Authors influenced their careers and their writings – both through networking opportunities and by helping to shape their cultural outlook. The literary cricketers weathered scandals and ferocious culture wars, but they also wrote numerous memoirs describing their antics on and around the cricket field. ‘The Literary Cricketers’ draws on their books and unpublished letters, letting these men narrate, in their own words, how literary cricket played a key role in their lives.