Christopher Isherwood

Isherwood in 1973

Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood (26 August 1904 – 4 January 1986) was a British-American novelist and playwright.

He also wrote plays such as The Dog Beneath the Skin (1935), The Ascent of F6 (1936), On the Frontier (1939), The Berlin Stories (1945).

Isherwood was born on 26 August 1904 in Wyberslegh Hall, High Lane, Cheshire, England. He studied at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and King's College London.

Isherwood was partners with Heinz Neddermeyer from 1932 until 1937. He was partners with Don Bachardy from 1953 until Isherwood's death in 1986.

Isherwood died on 4 January 1986 from prostate cancer in Santa Monica, California. He was 81 years old.

Christopher Isherwood Media

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  Repton heads Derbyshire

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  Plaque, Nollendorfstraße 17. Christopher Isherwood lived here between March 1929 and January/February 1933.(The dates on the plaque are not correct: Isherwood moved to Nollendorfstraße in December 1930 and according to his memoirs Christopher and His Kind left three days after witnessing the May 10th 1933 Nazi book burning at Opernplatz)

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  Christopher Isherwood's Nollendorfstraße residence

Other websites

• Isherwood Exhibit at the HuntingtonArchived 2007-01-25 at the Wayback Machine
• W.I. Scobie (Spring 1974). "Christopher Isherwood, The Art of Fiction No. 49". The Paris Review. Spring 1974 (57).
• LitWeb.net: Christopher Isherwood Biography
• Christopher Isherwood Foundation Archived 2015-05-17 at the Wayback Machine
• Christopher Isherwood Collection Archived 2012-03-01 at the Wayback Machine at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin
• "Huxley on Huxley". Dir. Mary Ann Braubach. Cinedigm, 2010. DVD. Archived from the original on 2014-11-08. Retrieved 2013-08-18.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
• Where Joy Resides An Isherwood Reader
• "Cabaret Berlin" Archived 2020-08-05 at the Wayback Machine Information on Christopher Isherwood and the entertainment of the Weimar era
• Christopher Isherwood on IMDb