Jackson was born in
Surrey, 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 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
Charterhouse School. 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
Wimbledon 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. In 2021, he wrote a book about
Joe Biden, the then-current president of the United States, named
President Joe Biden: Healer-In-Chief. ==Awards==