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  2. While living in Hollywood, California, Isherwood befriended Truman Capote, an up-and-coming young writer who would be influenced by Isherwood's Berlin Stories, most specifically in the traces of the story "Sally Bowles" that surface in Capote's famed novella Breakfast at Tiffany's.

  3. 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. After working as a secretary and a private tutor, Isherwood gained a measure of coterie recognition with his ...

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  4. Feb 20, 2020 · Christopher Isherwood (August 26, 1904—January 4, 1986) was an Anglo American author who wrote novels, autobiographies, diaries, and screenplays. He is best known for his Berlin Stories, which were the basis for the musical Cabaret; A Single Man (1964), for its portrayal of an openly gay professor; and for his memoir Christopher and His Kind ...

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  5. 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.

  6. After settling near Hollywood, where he became a scriptwriter, he became interested in Hindu philosophy and Vedanta, influenced partly by A. Huxley and Gerald Heard, and translated the Bhagavad‐gitā (1944, with Swami Prabhavananda) and other Hindu classics.

  7. Jan 17, 2013 · In The Isherwood Century, editors James J. Berg and Chris Freeman have gathered twenty-four essays and interviews on Christopher Isherwood's life and work. The volume, the first of its kind on Isherwood, offers a fresh, in-depth view of the author, his literary legacy, and his continuing influence.

  8. Jan 9, 2005 · Unlike Virginia Woolf, who grappled with her sexuality behind the fluttering curtain of her sensibility, or E. M. Forster, who used the exoticism of far-off places and customs as a stand-in for...

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