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.
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.
Apart from his biographies, histories, novels and other books, he has written prolifically for newspapers and magazines in the US and the UK.
[7] Of The Final Innings, Alex Massie said in Wisden that "Sandford captures the shadows lengthening over cricket – and everything else – in late-1930s England.