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Christopher Isherwood | |
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_(cropped1).jpg) Isherwood in 1938 | |
| Born | Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood 26 August 1904 High Lane, Cheshire, England |
| Died | 4 January 1986 (aged 81) Santa Monica, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Citizenship | British (1904–1946) American (1946–1986) |
| Alma mater | Corpus Christi College, Cambridge King's College London |
| Genre | Modernism, realism |
| Notable works | |
| Partner | Heinz Neddermeyer (1932–1937) Don Bachardy (1953–1986) |
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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 by Tom Ford in 2009; and Christopher and His Kind (1976), a memoir which "carried him into the heart of the Gay Liberation movement".[4]
- ^ "Biography". Isherwoodfoundation.org. Archived from the original on 27 June 2017. Retrieved 3 April 2020.
- ^ Berg, James J., ed. (2007). Isherwood on Writing. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. p. 19. ISBN 9781452912936.
- ^ Bartelt, Chuck; Bergeron, Barbara (15 January 1986). "Variety Obituaries: 1905-1928". Variety. Obituary. ISBN 9780824008444.
- ^ Katherine Bucknell and Kevin Clarke, exhibition text, "My Dearest Sweet Love: Christopher Isherwood & Don Bachardy", Schwules Museum, Berlin, 15 June – 26 August 2019