Christopher isherwood short biography

Biography

Christopher Isherwood was a novelist, playwright, screen-writer, autobiographer, and diarist. He was homosexual and made this a theme of some of his writing.

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He was born near Manchester in the north of England in 1904, became a U.S. citizen in 1946, and died at home in Santa Monica, California in January 1986.

Isherwood was the grandson and heir of a country squire, and his boyhood was privileged. Nevertheless, he suffered the peculiarly English privations of distant parents, boarding school at eight, and the loss of his father in the Great War.

In part as a riposte to his family circumstances, he formed, from his earliest years, intimate and creative friendships with a vast range of personalities from all walks and classes of life. With his school and university friend Edward Upward, he devised an imaginary world, Mortmere; its satirical, quasi-surreal mood colored their early work and leached into the writing of their contemporaries.

With another school fri Christopher Isherwood – A Twentieth Century Life. BUC