Early Life
Sassoon was the only child of the poet Siegfried Sassoon and Hester Sassoon née Gatty, and was born in London in 1936. He was born at a time when his parents' marriage was already in difficulties. His father wrote playfully to Max Beerbohm in November 1936: "Will he, I wonder, become Prime Minister, Poet Laureate, Archbishop of Canterbury, or merely Editor of The Times Literary Supplement? Or Master of The Quorn? Or merely Squire of Heytesbury?"
In 1947, Sassoon's parents separated, and he thereafter spent much of his childhood with his mother on the Scottish island of Mull.
He was educated at Greenways Preparatory School at Ashton Gifford (near Heytesbury), Oundle School and King's College, Cambridge.
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