The best prose writer in English' Gore Vidal
Christopher Isherwood was born in 1904. He began to write at university and later moved to Berlin, where he gave English lessons to support himself. He witnessed first hand the rise to power of Hitler and the Nazi party in Germany and some of his best works, such as Mr. Norris Changes Trains and Goodbye to Berlin, draw on these experiences. He created the character of Sally Bowles, later made famous as the heroine of the musical Cabaret. Isherwood travelled with W.H Auden to China in the late 1930s before going with him to America in 1939. He died on 4 January 1986. His novel A Single Man was recently made into an award-winning film by Tom Ford, starring Colin Firth and Julianne Moore.
A brilliant enigma.
*New York Times*
W H AUDEN, Louis MacNeice, Stephen Spender, Christopher Isherwood,
C Day Lewis. The brat-pack of their day. They are still considered
by many to have been the great writers of the 1930s... Isherwood
alone produced his greatest work during the thirties - Mr Norris
Changes Trains (1935), Lions and Shadows (1938), Goodbye to Berlin
(1939) - and yet more than any of the others he deserves to be
regarded as a quintessentially modern writer, a writer with whom we
can identify, a writer whose life was his work, and vice-versa.
*Guardian*
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