Christopher Hugh Derrick (12 June 1921 – 2 October 2007) was a British author, reviewer, publisher's reader and lecturer.
All his works are informed by wide interest in contemporary problems and a lively commitment to Catholic teaching.
Christopher Derrick attended Magdalen College, Oxford (1940; 1945–1947), his studies being interrupted by service in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.
[4] His daily occupation as a publisher's reader and a book reviewer meant constant engagement with the emerging trends of literary culture.
Most of Derrick's writings, however, draw less on such literary reminiscences than on reflection on matters of pressing public concern within and outside the Catholic Church in the 1960s, 70s and 80s: the environment, social relations, sexual relations, population, liturgy, ecumenism, inter-religious dialogue, education, and the current state of language and literature.