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Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood (26 August 1904 – 4 January 1986) was an Anglo-American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist.
Jun 6, 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 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.
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 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’.
Feb 20, 2020 · Christopher Isherwood (August 26, 1904—January 4, 1986) was an Anglo American author who wrote novels, autobiographies, diaries, and screenplays.
Christopher Isherwood has 165 books on Goodreads with 249220 ratings. Christopher Isherwood’s most popular book is A Single Man.
Christopher Isherwood. (1904—1986) writer. Quick Reference. (1904–86), novelist, born in Cheshire. He made the acquaintance of Auden (at preparatory school) and Upward (at Repton); he and Upward were at Cambridge together.
Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986) was one of the most celebrated writers of his generation. He left Cambridge without graduating, briefly studied medicine and then turned to writing his first novels, All the Conspirators and The Memorial.
Mar 19, 2011 · English novelist Christopher Isherwood's portrayal of Berlin helped shape the popular idea of the city as the Nazi-era loomed. But how true to life is it?
