Christopher Isherwood | |
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Born | Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood 26 August 1904 High Lane, Cheshire, England |
Died | 4 January 1986 Santa Monica, California, U.S. | (aged 81)
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 as a film 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]