Christopher Jackson is a British author, journalist, poet, digital painter and businessman who is the current news director of ''Finito''. He has published six books and has written for publications such as '' The Times'', '' New Statesman'', ''

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'', and '' Country Life''. As a journalist, he was the deputy editor of ''

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'' between 2016 and 2019. Jackson has appeared on television and radio stations such as BFMTV, DR, Bloomberg, BBC Radio 4, and ORF. As a biographer, he has written biographies of Theresa May, Roger Federer, and Joe Biden.

Biography

Jackson was born in

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, United Kingdom. His grandfather George Pattinson was a boat collector who founded the Windermere Jetty Museum at Windermere. Jackson is also related to British painter

Winifred Nicholson ''From Bedroom Window, Bankshead'', date unknown, private collection. Typical of Nicholson's impressionist work, combining still life with landscape. Rosa Winifred Nicholson (née Roberts; 21 December 1893 – 5 March 1981) was a British p ...

by marriage since the Nicholson family is his mother's cousins. His father, Gordon Jackson, currently runs a family company. Jackson was educated at the

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. He received BA in History from University of Nottingham. In 2013, his work, ''The Gallery'', was published by the University of Salzburg, and received critical acclaim. In 2017, his biography of Roger Federer, ''Roger Federer: Portrait of an Artist'', was published. The book was reviewed by the '' New Statesman'' and '' The Canberra Times''. In the book, Christopher Jackson attempts to explain the excitement of the

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champion's fans and covers his life from an artistic point of view. In 2018, he published ''Theresa May: Power, Chaos, and Chance'', a biography about the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Theresa May. The book covered Brexit and Theresa May's role in it. Jackson compared her determination with Margaret Thatcher. In 2021, he wrote a book about Joe Biden, the current President of the United States, named ''President Joe Biden: Healer-In-Chief''.

Awards

* National Poetry Prize (2016)

Bibliography

* ''The Gallery'' (2013) * ''The Fragile Democracy: The Race for the US Presidency'' (2016) * ''Roger Federer: Portrait of an Artist'' (2017) * ''Theresa May: Power, Chaos and Chance'' (2018) * ''President Joe Biden: Healer-In-Chief'' (2021)

References

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