Katherine Bucknell was born in Saigon and grew up in Washington, D.C. She is a literary scholar and the editor of `Juvenilia: Poems 1922-1928' by W.H. Auden and of `Diaries Volume One, 1939-1960' and `Lost Years: A Memoir 1945-1951' both by Christopher Isherwood. Her novels are `Canarino', `Leninsky Prospekt', and `What You Will'. She lives in London with her husband and their three children.