biography
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Isherwood, Christopher (William Bradshaw)
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| lived:
| (1904–86)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Disley, Cheshire, NWC England, UK. He studied at Repton, Cambridge, and London, and taught English in Germany (1930–3). His best-known novels, Mr Norris Changes Trains (1935) and Goodbye to Berlin (1939), were based on his experiences in the decadence of post-slump, pre-Hitler Berlin, and later inspired Cabaret (musical, 1966; filmed, 1972). In collaboration with Auden, a school friend, he wrote three prose-verse plays with political overtones. He also travelled in China with Auden in 1938, and wrote Journey to a War (1939). In 1939 he emigrated to California to work as a scriptwriter, and became a US citizen in 1946. There he developed his interest in Hinduism, producing several works on the Vedanta and translations of Hindu texts. Later novels include Prater Violet (1945), The World in the Evening (1954), and A Meeting by the River (1967). |
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