Christopher Isherwood
Christopher Isherwood | |
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Isherwood in 1938 | |
| Born | Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood 26 August 1904 |
| Died | 4 January 1986 (aged 81) Santa Monica, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom (1904–1946) United States (1946–1986) |
| Alma mater | Corpus Christi College, Cambridge King's College London |
| Genre | Modernism, realism |
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| Partner | Heinz Neddermeyer (1932–1937) Don Bachardy (1953–1986) |
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Christopher Isherwood (born Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood; 26 August 1904 – 4 January 1986) was an English and American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist. His best-known works include Goodbye to Berlin (1939), a semi-autobiographical novel which was the basis for 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".