Katherine Bucknell, scholar and writer

Katherine Bucknell was born in Saigon in 1957 and grew up in Washington, D.C. She has degrees from Princeton, Oxford, and Columbia Universities and lives in London and Nantucket with her husband, Bob Maguire. They have three children.

She is a founder of The W.H. Auden Society and Director of the Christopher Isherwood Foundation. She has written and edited more than a dozen books, including several novels, and her essays on literature and other subjects have appeared in various collections. She contributes to journals, newspapers, T.V., radio, and film, and recently presented a podcast about Isherwood and his life partner Don Bachardy.