Christopher Isherwood

26 August 1904 (High Lane, Cheshire County) - 4 January 1986 (Santa Monica, California). Novelist and playwright.

Biography

Isherwood studied history at the Corpus Christi College in Cambridge where he met W.H. Auden. He also studied medicine at King's College in London but he did not finish his studies, instead he went on a trip to Germany together with Auden.

During his stay in Berlin (1929-1933)Isherwood lived among others in Berlin-Schöneberg where a plaque commemorates his resdidence. In Berlin he also met his first boyfriend Heinz. Isherwood was intrigued by the Weimar Republic and the sexual freedom which existed there.

In 1939 Isherwood emigrated to California where he worked as freelance and screenwriter for various Hollywood Studios. From 1959-1962 he worked as a visting professor for Modern English Literature [where??]

He lived in a relationship with Don Bachardy (who was 30 years younger than Isherwood) as a respectable couple in Hollywood. Although McCarthy's policy was highly homophobic, Isherwood and Bachardy lived their homosexuality openly. The partnership lasted until Isherwood's death in 1986.

In 1946 Isherwood obtained the American citizenship.

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