Robert William Brooke (born 5 May 1940) is an English cricket writer who has published more than 20 books about the game, including those referred to in the bibliography below.
Born in Solihull, Brooke attended school in Dorridge and Yardley Grammar School in Birmingham.
[1] He is a longtime Warwickshire CCC member who served as the club's honorary librarian for several years.
He has also been active in MCC, the Cricket Society and the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians (ACS), of which he was the co-founder in 1973.
Some of his articles for that publication can be found on Cricinfo within their player profiles.