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Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood (26 August 1904 – 4 January 1986) was an Anglo-American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist.
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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’. So what is...
Christopher Isherwood has 167 books on Goodreads with 252488 ratings. Christopher Isherwood’s most popular book is A Single Man.
Christopher Isherwood was born on 26 August 1904 in Cheshire, England, UK. He was a writer and actor, known for Cabaret (1972), A Single Man (2009) and Frankenstein: The True Story (1973). He died on 4 January 1986 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
Christopher Isherwood. Christopher Isherwood’s home is in “the canyon” on the edge of Santa Monica, California—a quiet bohemian district of stucco houses inhabited mostly by people involved in the arts. It preserves much of the character it must have had thirty years ago when it first became a haven for refugees from the vast sprawl of Los Angeles.
