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Christopher Isherwood
Christopher Isherwood 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 Ga…
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culture · English and American novelist (1904–1986) · writer · screenwriter · novelist · university teacher · autobiographer · playwright · gay fiction writer · language teacher · also Christopher Isherwood, Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood, Isherwood
Born 26 August 1904 · Died 4 January 1986 · Q310111
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At one campus where I was lecturing, I asked a friend, "How many of my colleagues know I'm gay?" He answered, "All of them." I wasn't surprised. But, just the same, it was kind of spooky, because not one of them had ever given me the faintest sign that he or she knew. If I had spoken about it myself, most of them would have felt it was in bad taste.
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2026· 4 entries
Herald Sun: WAR – Archie Isherwood scores it off the lucky error and bounce
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gardencentermag.com: Garden Center Conference & Expo Session Sneak Peek: How Garden Centers Can Navigate Economic Uncertainty with Carol and Randall Isherwood
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The Guardian: A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood review – getting through the day
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2025· 3 entries
Queerty: An insider’s look at Don Bachardy & Christopher Isherwood’s legendary love story
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The Guardian: A Single Man review – homoerotic tennis enlivens ballet version of Isherwood’s classic
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Bay Area Reporter: 'Christopher Isherwood: Inside Out' New expansive biography shares the author's full life
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2024· 3 entries
Washington Post: A major new biography of the literary great Christopher Isherwood
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The Boston Globe: Finding the real Christopher Isherwood
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The Guardian: Christopher Isherwood Inside Out by Katherine Bucknell review – courage and camp
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2022· 1 entry
The Guardian: A Single Man review – Isherwood’s melancholy mourner falls apart in 60s California
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2019· 1 entry
The Guardian: The Ascent of F6: Auden and Isherwood's play reviewed - archive, 5 July 1938
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2018· 1 entry
The Guardian: The Dog Beneath the Skin review – Auden and Isherwood's ragbag revue
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2016· 1 entry
The Guardian: Interview: Christopher Isherwood – archive, 17 November 1960
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2015· 1 entry
The Guardian: The 100 best novels: No 83 – A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood (1964)
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2014· 1 entry
Publishers Weekly: The Animals: Love Letters Between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy
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2010· 1 entry
Isherwood's autobiography, Christopher and His Kind, was adapted into a television film by the BBC, starring Matt Smith as Isherwood and directed by Geoffrey Sax
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2004· 1 entry
KCRW: Reflecting on Christopher Isherwood
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1986· 3 entries
Died 1986-01-04.
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“It seems to me that the real clue to your sex orientation lies in your romantic feelings rather than in your sexual feelings. If you are really gay, you are able to fall in love with a man, not just enjoy having sex with him.”
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“At one campus where I was lecturing, I asked a friend, "How many of my colleagues know I'm gay?" He answered, "All of them." I wasn't surprised. But, just the same, it was kind of spooky, because not one of them had ever given me the faintest sign that he or she knew. If I had spoken about it myself, most of them would have felt it was in bad taste.”
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1981· 1 entry
And died of the disease on 4 January 1986 at his Santa Monica home, aged 81
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1962· 1 entry
Comprised four related stories that overlap the period covered in his Berlin stories
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1956· 1 entry
Sent Isherwood a letter asking for money to help escape East Germany, which Isherwood provided
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1951· 1 entry
Goodbye to Berlin was adapted for the New York stage by John van Druten using the title I Am a Camera, taken from Isherwood's opening paragraphs
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1945· 2 entries
Sixty-eight articles from Vedanta and the West were collected in book form as Vedanta for the Western World
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But balked at taking an oath that required him to defend the country
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1944· 1 entry
The translation of the Hindu scripture, Bhagavad Gita – The Song of God that the Swami and Isherwood had been working on was published
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1938· 1 entry
And the couple had one child, a son, born in 1940
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1937· 2 entries
Two of the largest peace groups joined forces; the No More War Movement merged into the Peace Pledge Union
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Heard and Huxley became Vedantists attending functions at the Vedanta Society of Southern California, under the guidance of founder Swami Prabhavananda, a monk of the Ramakrishna Order of India
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1933· 1 entry
Isherwood fled Germany with his friend Heinz Neddermeyer seeking asylum for Heinz — who was refused entry to England
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1932· 2 entries
Describes the impact on a family from the death of the father in World War I
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The 27-year-old Isherwood started a relationship with Heinz Neddermeyer, then 16 or 17 years old
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1928· 1 entry
About the struggle for self-determination between children and their parents
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1918· 1 entry
Isherwood left for Repton, his boarding school in Derbyshire
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1904· 2 entries
Born 1904-08-26.
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On his family's estate in Cheshire near Stockport in the north-west of England
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