William Fotheringham
William Fotheringham (born 1965) is a sports writer specialising in cycling and rugby. As a newspaper journalist he writes for The Guardian.[1] Fotheringham was a features editor for Cycling Weekly, the features editor of Cycle Sport and co-founder of Procycling magazine.[1] He is a current writer for procycling Magazine.[2]
A graduate of Cambridge University with a degree in French, Russian and Italian, Fotheringham won the IPC Media Specialist Writer of the Year award in 1993 and 1998.[1]
He has been a racing cyclist for nearly 40 years.[2] He is described by Rapha as being "one of the finest writers in the ‘Pro Tour’ pressroom".[3]
His 2012 Eddy Merckx biography Half-Man, Half-Bike, was the first cycling title to achieve No1 status in the Sunday Times bestseller lists.
He is the brother of fellow cycling journalist Alasdair Fotheringham.[4]
His most recent books are Sunday in Hell, an account of how iconic director Jorgen Leth made the film of the same name about the 1976 Paris-Roubaix, and The Greatest, the Times and Life of Beryl Burton, a self-published venture.
Books by Fotheringham
- Cycle Racing: How to Train, Race and Win. A. & C. Black. 1996. ISBN 978-0-7136-4540-8.
- Put Me Back on My Bike: In Search of Tom Simpson. Yellow Jersey Press. 2002. ISBN 978-0-224-06186-5.
- A Century of Cycling: The Classic Races and Legendary Champions. Motorbooks International. 2003. ISBN 978-0-7603-1553-8.
- Fotheringham's Sporting Trivia. Sanctuary Publishing Ltd. 2003. ISBN 978-1-86074-510-2.
- Roule Britannia: A History of Britons in the Tour de France. Yellow Jersey Press. 2005. ISBN 978-0-224-07425-4.
- Fotheringham's Sporting Pastimes. Robson Books Ltd. 2006. ISBN 978-1-86105-953-6.
- Fallen Angel: The Passion of Fausto Coppi. Jonathan Cape. 2009. ISBN 978-0-224-07447-6.
- Merckx: Half-Man, Half-Bike. Yellow Jersey Press. 2012. ISBN 978-0-224-07448-3.
- Bradley Wiggins - My Time. Yellow Jersey Press. 2012. ISBN 978-0-224-09212-8.
- Bradley Wiggins - My Time. Yellow Jersey Press. 2012. ISBN 978-0-224-09213-5.
- Racing Hard. Faber and Faber. 2013. ISBN 978-0-571-30363-2.
- The Badger: Bernard Hinault and the Fall and Rise of French Cycling. Yellow Jersey Press. 2016. ISBN 978-0224092050.
- Lizzie Armitstead - Steadfast: My Story. Blink. 2017. ISBN 978-1911274254.
- Sunday in Hell: Behind the Lens of the Greatest Cycling Film Ever. Yellow Jersey Press. 2018. ISBN 978-0224092029.
- The Greatest: The Times and Life of Beryl Burton. YouCaxton. 2019. ISBN 978-1-912419-53-1.
As translator
- Voet, Willy (2001). Breaking the Chain: Drugs and Cycling – The True Story. Yellow Jersey Press. ISBN 978-0-224-06056-1.
- Fignon, Laurent (2010). We Were Young and Carefree. London: Yellow Jersey Press. ISBN 978-0-224-08319-5.
References
- "Guardian contacts". The Guardian.
- "William Fotheringham". Rouleur Magazine.
- "Rouleur Magazine". Rapha.
- Cleverly, Ian (4 July 2012). "On the Shelf". Rouleur. Retrieved 16 April 2014.