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Christopher Sandford (biographer)

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Christopher Sandford (born 1 July 1956) is an English journalist and biographer. He primarily writes about film and music, as well as cricket, his sport of preference.

Life and career

Sandford was born in England, the son of Sefton Sandford, a senior British naval officer. He spent his childhood partly in the Soviet Union, where his father served as senior military attaché in the British Embassy, and partly in the United Kingdom.Christopher Sandford, "Never See His Kind Again", Chronicles Magazine, April 2013, pp. 38–41. He was educated at Radley College and Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, where he obtained a master's degree in history in 1977.{{cite web |url = https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/sandford-christopher-1956| title = Sandford, Christopher 1956–| publisher = Encyclopedia.com| accessdate =10 January 2021}}{{cite web |url = https://russianlife.com/contributors/christopher-sandford/ | title = Christopher Sandford| publisher = Russian Life| accessdate =10 January 2021}}'Cambridge University tripos results in philosophy and history', Times, 30 June 1977, p. 18. Retrieved 9 August 2021. He began his career as a journalist in London that same year.

Sandford lives in Seattle and London. Apart from his biographies, histories, novels and other books, he has written prolifically for newspapers and magazines in the US and the UK.{{cite web |url = https://us.macmillan.com/author/christophersandford/| title = Christopher Sandford| publisher = Macmillan| accessdate =10 January 2021}}{{cite web |url = https://www.duckworthbooks.co.uk/fb-author/christopher-sandford/| title = Christopher Sandford| publisher = Duckworth| accessdate =10 January 2021}} His book The Final Innings: The Cricketers of Summer 1939 was joint winner of The Cricket Society/MCC Book of the Year award for 2020.{{cite web |title=The Cricket Society/ MCC Book of the Year |url=https://www.cricketsociety.com/awards/the-cricket-society-mcc-book-of-the-year/ |website=The Cricket Society |access-date=20 April 2021 |archive-date=15 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190415232150/http://www.cricketsociety.com/awards/the-cricket-society-mcc-book-of-the-year/ |url-status=dead }} Of The Final Innings, Alex Massie said in Wisden that "Sandford captures the shadows lengthening over cricket – and everything else – in late-1930s England."Wisden 2020, p. 119.

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Category:1956 births

Category:Living people

Category:People educated at Radley College

Category:Alumni of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge

Category:English journalists

Category:Cricket writers

Category:English biographers