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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 into a film directed...
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 (August 26, 1904—January 4, 1986) was an Anglo American author who wrote novels, autobiographies, diaries, and screenplays.
Aug 22, 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.
Christopher Isherwood has 154 books on Goodreads with 257774 ratings. Christopher Isherwood’s most popular book is A Single Man.
Aug 26, 2024 · Christopher Isherwood. Katherine Bucknell, previously the editor of a four-volume edition of Christopher Isherwood’s diaries, has now published Christopher Isherwood Inside Out, an intimate and rigorous biography of the celebrated writer and gay cultural icon. Here she meets with Josh Zajdman to discuss the challenges and revelations of the book.
English-born American writer Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood portrayed Berlin in the early 1930s in his best known works, such as Goodbye to Berlin (1939), the basis for the musical Cabaret (1966). Isherwood was a novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist.
Jun 8, 2018 · Overview. Perhaps best known for his stories of Weimar, Germany, collected in The Berlin Stories (1946), which were later adapted for the play I Am a Camera (1951) and the stage musical and film Cabaret (1966 and 1972), Isherwood also made important headway in the portrayal of gay men both in his fiction and numerous volumes of memoirs.
Jun 16, 2024 · Inveterate partygoer, sometime lover of WH Auden, and literary conjurer of Thirties Berlin, Christopher Isherwood was deemed to hold ‘the future of the English novel in his hands’.
Jun 17, 2024 · Christopher Isherwood spent much of the first half of his life writing fiction that was based closely on his own experiences in England and Germany, and much of the second half expanding, revising, and interrogating those original accounts.
