Christopher St. John Sprigg

Until recently Christopher St John Sprigg was largely remembered for his Marxist writing and poetry, all of which was published posthumously under the name **Christopher Caudwell**. The reprinting of *Death of an Airman* by the British Library in 2015 has helped revive interest in his fiction. Christopher St John Sprigg (1907 - 1937) was born in London to a literate family of writers, journalists and editors. The youngest of three children, Sprigg attended Catholic boarding school for ten years, until …