Duncan Hamilton (born December 1958) is a British author and newspaper journalist and three-time winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award.
FHM called the book a "superb portrait of the conflicted, contradictory man [that] doesn't duck his uglier aspects.
[7] After winning the £18,000 first prize, Hamilton wrote a column for the Yorkshire Post, where he was a deputy editor, expressing his surprise and delight at the book's success.
In 2019 he won his third William Hill award for The Great Romantic: Cricket and the Golden Age of Neville Cardus.
[11] After 32 years as a newspaper journalist in Nottingham and Leeds, Hamilton now works as a freelance, mostly concentrating on writing his books.