Christopher Peachment was born in West Sussex, England, in 1948. He worked as a stage manager at the Royal Court and many other theatres in England before turning to journalism including work as an art critic. In the 1980s, he was a film editor for Time Out magazine in London, later becoming Deputy Literary Editor and Arts Editor for The (London) Times. He was the author of Caravaggio and The Green and the Gold. He lived in Hoxton, London. He died in January 2023.