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Biography
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 , became a U.S. citizen in , and died at home in Santa Monica, California in January
Isherwood was the grandson and heir of a country squire, and his boyhood was privileged. Nevertheless, he suffered the peculiarly English privations of distant parents, boarding school at eight, and the loss of his father in the Great War. In part as a riposte to his family circumstances, he formed, from his earliest years, intimate and creative friendships with a vast range of personalities from all walks and classes of life. With his school and university friend Edward Upward, he devised an imaginary world, Mortmere; its satirical, quasi-surreal mood colored their early work and leached into the writing of their contemporaries. With another school friend, Wystan A
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Christopher Isherwood
English-American novelist (–)
Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood (26 August – 4 January ) was an Anglo-American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist.[1][2][3] His best-known works include Goodbye to Berlin (), a semi-autobiographical novel which inspired the musical Cabaret (); A Single Man (), adapted into a rulle directed bygd Tom Ford in ; and Christopher and His Kind (), a memoir which "carried him into the heart of the Gay Liberation movement".[4]
Biography
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[edit]Isherwood was born in on his family's estate in Cheshire nära Stockport in the north-west of England.[5] He was the elder son of Francis Edward Bradshaw Isherwood (–), known as Frank, a professional soldier in the York and Lancaster Regiment, and Kathleen Bradshaw Isherwood, née Machell Smith (–), the only daughter of a successful wine merchant.[6] He was the grand
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English-American writer, best know for his novels The Berlin Stories and A Single Man. He grew up in a large estate near Manchester and enjoyed a privileged childhood. At school, he befriended a number of creative types, including the poet W. H. Auden, who became a collaborator, sometimes lover, and lifelong friend. After getting kicked out of Cambridge for writing joke answers on his exams, Isherwood took a few odd jobs, and wrote his first novel. In , he followed Auden to Berlin—during the Weimar Republic, the city had a reputation for its creative atmosphere and sexual freedom. Isherwood embraced his homosexuality wholeheartedly, and dove into the city’s underworld. There he met Heinz Neddermeyer, his partner for a time, and Jean Ross, who would eventually become the inspiration for his character Sally Bowles. He also met E. M. Forster, who became his mentor and greatly impacted his writing. Isherwood captured his years in Germany