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  1. Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood (26 August 1904 – 4 January 1986) was an Anglo-American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist.

  2. Jun 6, 2024 · Christopher Isherwood (born August 26, 1904, High Lane, Cheshire, England—died January 4, 1986, Santa Monica, California, U.S.) was a British-American novelist and playwright best known for his novels about Berlin in the early 1930s.

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  3. Learn about the life and works of Christopher Isherwood, a novelist, playwright, screen-writer, and diarist. Explore his friendships, travels, sexuality, spirituality, and legacy in this comprehensive biography.

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    • January 4, 1986
    • August 26, 1904
    • A Single Man.
    • Goodbye to Berlin.
    • The Berlin Stories.
    • Mr. Norris Changes Trains.
  4. Jun 16, 2024 · Inveterate partygoer, sometime lover of WH Auden, and literary conjurer of Thirties Berlin, Christopher Isherwood was deemed to hold ‘the future of the English novel in his hands’.

  5. Jun 17, 2024 · Christopher Isherwood spent much of the first half of his life writing fiction that was based closely on his own experiences in England and Germany, and much of the second half expanding, revising, and interrogating those original accounts.

  6. Goodbye to Berlin is a 1939 novel by Anglo-American writer Christopher Isherwood set during the waning days of the Weimar Republic.