About 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 Gay Liberation movement". His parents christened their first son Christopher William Bradshaw-Isherwood. Isherwood's father, Frank, was educated at the University of Cambridge and Sandhurst Military Academy, fought in the Boer War, and was killed in the First World War. At Repton, Isherwood met his lifelong friend Edward Upward, with whom he invented an imaginary English village called Mortmere, as related in his fictional autobiography, Lions and Shadows (1938). Through Auden, Isherwood met the younger poet Stephen Spender, who printed Auden's first collection, Poems (1928).
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