Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Craig Higginson an haife shi ne a Harare, Zimbabwe, a 1971 (tsohon Salisbury, Rhodesia). Saboda yanayin da ya faru a lokacin yakin Rhodesian Bush, ya koma tare da mahaifiyarsa da 'yar'uwarsa zuwa Johannesburg a shekarar 1976, shekarar da aka yi tawaye a Soweto
Ka yi haƙuri. A lokacin da yake dan shekara goma, ya halarci makarantar kwana a KwaZulu-Natal a Clifton Nottingham Road da Michaelhouse. Yankin Midlands daga baya zai bayyana sosai a cikin litattafansa da wasan kwaikwayo. A cikin 1990, a cikin makonnin da suka ga sakin Nelson Mandela daga kurkuku da kuma dakatar da Majalisar Dokokin Afirka, Higginson ya tafi Jami'ar Witwatersrand don yin nazarin Fine Art, amma daga baya ya koma BA (Honors) a Turanci da Litattafan Turai. A 1995, ya yi aiki a matsayin mataimakin darektan Barney Simon a gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Kasuwa. Bayan mutuwar Simon, ya koma Ingila, inda zai zauna har shekaru goma. A can ya yi aiki a gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Young Vic tare da Tim Supple da kuma kamfanin Royal Shakespeare tare da Michael Attenborough. Ya kuma kasance mai sukar wasan kwaikwayo na wasu shekaru a mujallar "Time Out". Ya buga littafinsa na farko, "Shirye-shiryen dariya", yana da shekaru ashirin da shida a Afirka ta Kudu da Ingila kuma ya daidaita "Laughter in the Dark" don Royal Shakespeare Company da BBC Radio 3 jim kaɗan bayan haka. Ya koma zama da aiki a Afirka ta Kudu a shekara ta 2004. Tun daga wannan lokacin Higginson ya koyar a Jami'ar Witwatersrand kuma ya kasance Manajan Adabi na Gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Kasuwa. Ya wallafa litattafai da wasan kwaikwayo da yawa kuma ya yi aiki sosai a gidan talabijin na Afirka ta Kudu a matsayin marubuci. Yana da PhD a cikin Rubutun Halitta kuma ya auri 'yar fim Leila Henriques. Suna zaune ne a Johannesburg.