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Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood (26 August 1904 – 4 January 1986) was an Anglo-American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist. 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), a memoir ...
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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Feb 20, 2020 · Learn about the life and achievements of Christopher Isherwood, a British-born writer who documented the Weimar era in Berlin and became a pioneer of LGBTQ literature. Explore his novels, autobiographies, diaries, and screenplays, and his relationships with W.H. Auden and Don Bachardy.
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- January 4, 1986
- August 26, 1904
- A Single Man.
- Goodbye to Berlin.
- The Berlin Stories.
- Mr. Norris Changes Trains.
Christopher Isherwood has 164 books on Goodreads with 246633 ratings. Christopher Isherwood’s most popular book is A Single Man.
Apr 21, 2015 · Christopher Isherwood’s story of a gay Englishman struggling with bereavement in LA is a work of compressed brilliance. Robert McCrum. Mon 20 Apr 2015 00.45 EDT Last modified on Wed 21 Mar 2018 ...