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Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood (26 August 1904 – 4 January 1986) was an Anglo-American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist. [1] [2] [3] His best-known works include Goodbye to Berlin (1939), a semi-autobiographical novel which inspired the musical Cabaret (1966); A Single Man (1964), adapted as a film by Tom Ford in 2009; and Christopher and His Kind (1976 ...
Christopher William Bradshaw-Isherwood was born in Cheshire, near the large estate of Marple Hall, where his father had been reared. Frank had a gentleman’s career in the military.
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Biography. Christopher Isherwood was a novelist, playwright, screen-writer, autobiographer, and diarist. He was homosexual and made this a theme of some of his writing. He was born near Manchester in the north of England in 1904, became a U.S. citizen in 1946, and died at home in Santa Monica, California in January 1986.
Feb 20, 2020 · Christopher Isherwood was an Anglo American author best known for his 'Berlin Stories' and his role as an early voice in LGBTQ literature. Learn about his life and legacy.
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Apr 12, 2024 · Christopher Isherwood (born August 26, 1904, High Lane, Cheshire, England—died January 4, 1986, Santa Monica, California, U.S.) was a British-American novelist and playwright best known for his novels about Berlin in the early 1930s.
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Jan 1, 2005 · Christopher Isherwood followed Oscar Wilde's prescription for lifelong romance by falling in love with himself—over and over again
A Single Man is a 1964 novel by Christopher Isherwood . Set in Southern California during 1962, shortly after the Cuban Missile Crisis, it depicts one day in the life of George, a middle-aged Englishman who is a professor at a Los Angeles university.
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