Christopher Wood

About Christopher Wood

Birth

1935

Death

2015

First book

1979

Years writing

47

Christopher Hovelle Wood was an English screenwriter and novelist, best known for the Confessions series of novels and films which he wrote as Timothy Lea. Under his own name, he adapted two James Bond novels for the screen: The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker (1979).

Christopher Wood was a versatile British author who excelled as a writer, screenwriter, novelist, poet, and lawyer.

His professional career was deeply linked to art, serving as the director of the Old Master Picture Department at the prestigious Christie's auction house.

He is globally recognized for his literary contribution to the James Bond universe with the work Moonraker.

His bibliography spans 32 works, focusing primarily on British painting and 19th-century art.

Born in Lambeth in 1935, he dedicated much of his life to researching and documenting Victorian and Pre-Raphaelite painting.