About Me

Ed Smith was educated at Cambridge University, where he took a double first in history. Aged 18, he became the youngest ever Cambridge undergraduate to score a century on his first class debut. He was a professional cricketer for 13 years, at Kent and then at Middlesex, where he was captain in 2007 and 2008. He played three Test matches for England. He retired after breaking his ankle in 2008.

He has written three books. After joining up with the New York Mets, he wrote Playing Hard Ball, a comparison of cricket and baseball. On and Off the Field, a diary of the year he played for England, was Wisden Book of the Year. The playwright Simon Gray described his What Sport Tells Us About Life as: “An absolutely delightful book. What Smith says about rhythm in batting is also true of writing – poise, balance, etc. – and Smith has it.” Luck will be published by Bloomsbury in April 2012.

In October 2010, Ed wrote and presented Inside Sport, his first documentary for BBC1 television. He also wrote and presented Peak Performance for BBC Radio 3, a series comparing the shared experiences of sportsmen and musicians. He appears regularly on Radio 4′s Today programme.

After retiring from cricket, Ed wrote the Mind Games column for The Daily Telegraph, before joining The Times as a leader writer. He is now a Times features writer, contributor to The Spectator and a GQ columnist.

Profiles

Simon Kuper, FT
http://www.edsmith.org.uk/biography/interviews/what-sport-tells-us-about-a-counterfactual-historian/

Simon Barnes, The Times
http://www.edsmith.org.uk/biography/interviews/ed-smith-to-open-new-chapter-after-retiring/

Enquiries

For book enquiries, contact David Godwin at DGA, 55 Monmouth Street, London WC2H 9DG. Tel: 020 7240 9992.

For television and radio, contact Jonny McWilliams at Wasserman Media Group, 33 Soho Square, 5th floor, London W1D 3QU. Tel: 020 7009 6000.