Christopher Sandford (born 1 July 1956)[1] is an English journalist and biographer. He primarily writes about film and music, as well as cricket, his sport of preference.
Sandford was born in England, the son of Sefton Sandford, a senior Britishnaval officer. He spent his childhood partly in theSoviet Union, where his father served as senior military attaché in the British Embassy, and partly in the United Kingdom.[2] He was educated atRadley College andFitzwilliam College, Cambridge, where he obtained amaster's degree in history in 1977.[1][3][4] He began his career as a journalist in London that same year.[1]
Sandford lives inSeattle andLondon. Apart from his biographies, histories, novels and other books, he has written prolifically for newspapers and magazines in the US and the UK.[5][6] His bookThe Final Innings: The Cricketers of Summer 1939 was joint winner ofThe Cricket Society/MCC Book of the Year award for 2020.[7] OfThe Final Innings,Alex Massie said inWisden that "Sandford captures the shadows lengthening over cricket – and everything else – in late-1930s England."[8]
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