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Christopher Isherwood

Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood

Christopher Isherwood was an Anglo-American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist. His best-known works include Goodbye to Berlin (1939), which is a semi-autobiographical novel which inspired the musical ‘Caberet’. From Repton, Isherwood studies at Cambridge and later moved to the USA where he became a citizen in 1945. He wrote books and poetry for his whole life. He was an influential writer and was befriended by a number of famous writers including Dodie Smith, Truman Capote, W.H. Auden and Aldous Huxley.