Christopher Isherwood (1904–1986)
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Christopher Isherwood, born in Cheshire, England, in 1904, wrote both novels and nonfiction. He was a lifelong friend of W.H. Auden and wrote several plays with him, including Dog Beneath the Skin and The Ascent of F6. He lived in Germany from 1928 until 1933 and his writings during this period mostrar más described the political and social climate of pre-Hitler Germany. Isherwood immigrated to the United States in 1939 and became a U.S. citizen in 1946. He lived in California, working on film scripts and adapting plays for television. The musical Cabaret is based on several of Isherwood's stories and on his play, I Am a Camera. His other works include Mr. Norris Changes Trains, about life in Germany in the early 1930s; Down There on a Visit, an autobiographical novel; and Where Joy Resides, published after his death in 1986. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Series
Obras de Christopher Isherwood
The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Plays and Other Dramatic Writings, 1928-1938 (1988) — Contribuidor — 55 copias
Sally Bowles 5 copias
I Am Waiting 2 copias
The Landauers 2 copias
On Ruegen Island {short story} 2 copias
Essentials of Vedanta 2 copias
Dorian Book Quarterly 2 copias
Passion: Men on Men {audio} — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Christopher Isherwood reads two lectures on the Bhagavad Gita by Swami Vivekananda [video recording] (2007) — Speaker — 1 copia
Liberation: Diaries 1970–1983 1 copia
Interview 1 copia
Hypothesis and Belief {article} 1 copia
Isherwood Christopher 1 copia
The Berlin of Sally Bowles 1 copia
H. G. Wells {article} 1 copia
R. L. S. {article} 1 copia
Katherine Mansfield {article} 1 copia
Klaus Mann {article} 1 copia
Mr. Lancaster {short story} 1 copia
Người Cô Độc 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists (2000) — Contribuidor, algunas ediciones — 552 copias
WHAT VEDANTA MEANS TO ME CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE ALDOUS HUXLEY - CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD - AND GERALD HEARD (1961) — Contribuidor — 8 copias
Het neusje van de zalm een feestelijke bloemlezing uit Querido's 'vlaggetjesreeks' (1986) — Contribuidor — 5 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Isherwood, Christopher
- Nombre legal
- Bradshaw-Isherwood, Christopher William
- Otros nombres
- Isherwood, Christopher
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1904-08-26
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1986-01-04
- Lugar de sepultura
- body donated to science
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- UK
USA (1946) - País (para mapa)
- UK
- Lugar de nacimiento
- High Lane, Cheshire, England, UK
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Santa Monica, California, USA
- Causa de fallecimiento
- cancer (prostate)
- Lugares de residencia
- Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK
London, England, UK
Berlin, Germany
Copenhagen, Denmark
Sintra, Portugal
New York, New York, USA - Educación
- University of Cambridge (Corpus Christi College)
- Ocupaciones
- novelist
playwright
translator - Relaciones
- Bachardy, Don (partner)
Hamilton, Gerald (friend) - Organizaciones
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1949)
- Premios y honores
- Robert Kirsch Award (1984)
Miembros
Debates
Group Read, April 2020: Mr Norris Changes Trains en 1001 Books to read before you die (abril 2020)
Reseñas
Listas
Five star books (1)
Epistolary Books (1)
Favorite Memoirs (1)
Europe (1)
Modernism (1)
A Novel Cure (1)
Tagged Widows (1)
Books I've Read (1)
5 Best 5 Years (1)
Read These Too (1)
1930s (2)
Folio Society (1)
Premios
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 86
- También por
- 29
- Miembros
- 13,112
- Popularidad
- #1,780
- Valoración
- 3.9
- Reseñas
- 278
- ISBNs
- 500
- Idiomas
- 21
- Favorito
- 42
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