Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood (26 August 1904 – 4 January 1986) was an Anglo-American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and...
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Christopher and His Kind is a 2011 BBC television film. It tells the story of Christopher Isherwood's exploits in Berlin in the early 1930s. The film...
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which in turn was based on the 1939 novel Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood. Set in 1929–1930 Berlin during the twilight of the Jazz Age as...
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me to do, or just my lower nature? World famous English author, Christopher Isherwood was a beloved disciple of Swami Prabhavananda, and closely identified...
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Goodbye to Berlin (category Novels by Christopher Isherwood)
Anglo-American writer Christopher Isherwood set during the waning days of the Weimar Republic. The novel recounts Isherwood's 1929–1932 sojourn as a...
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English-American novelist Christopher Isherwood and based upon 19-year-old cabaret singer Jean Ross. The character debuted in Isherwood's 1937 novella Sally...
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Angeles Times – Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose has been awarded in partnership with the Christopher Isherwood Foundation since...
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Christopher and His Kind is a 1976 memoir by Anglo-American writer Christopher Isherwood, first printed in a 130-copy edition by Sylvester & Orphanos,...
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Jean Ross (section Meeting Isherwood)
film actress in Berlin. Her escapades inspired the heroine in Christopher Isherwood's 1937 novella Sally Bowles which was later collected in Goodbye...
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The Berlin Stories (category Novels by Christopher Isherwood)
The Berlin Stories is a 1945 omnibus by Anglo-American writer Christopher Isherwood and consisting of the novels Mr Norris Changes Trains (1935) and Goodbye...
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Camera by John Van Druten and the 1939 novel Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood. It stars Liza Minnelli, Michael York, Helmut Griem, Marisa Berenson...
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resides in Santa Monica, California. Bachardy was the partner of Christopher Isherwood for over 30 years. Born in Los Angeles, California, Bachardy studied...
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authors and intellectuals of the time, including Aldous Huxley, Christopher Isherwood, and Gerald Heard. Born in India, he joined the Ramakrishna Order...
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- The Song of God is the title of the Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood's translation of the Bhagavad Gītā (Sanskrit: भगवद्गीता, "Song of...
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reintroduced to Christopher Isherwood in 1925 by his fellow student A. S. T. Fisher. For the next few years Auden sent poems to Isherwood for comments and...
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Mr Norris Changes Trains (category Novels by Christopher Isherwood)
1935 novel by the British writer Christopher Isherwood. It is frequently included with Goodbye to Berlin, another Isherwood novel, in a single volume, The...
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Camera is a 1951 Broadway play by John Van Druten adapted from Christopher Isherwood's 1939 novel Goodbye to Berlin, which is part of The Berlin Stories...
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Armistead Maupin (redirect from Christopher Turner (photographer))
Armistead Maupin interviews Christopher Isherwood for The Village Voice, Volume 30, Number 16 "Foreword to 'The Isherwood Century'". March 5, 2006. Archived...
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noted American satirical novelist Terry Southern and British author Christopher Isherwood also incorporates elements from Jessica Mitford's 1963 nonfiction...
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Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood and the 1951 eponymous play by John Van Druten. The film is a fictionalized account of Isherwood's time living in...
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A Single Man (novel) (category Novels by Christopher Isherwood)
A Single Man is a 1964 novel by Christopher Isherwood. Set in Southern California during 1962, shortly after the Cuban Missile Crisis, it depicts one...
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romantic drama film based on the 1964 novel of the same name by Christopher Isherwood. The directorial debut of fashion designer Tom Ford, the film stars...
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Edwin Arnold Bhagavad Gita - Song of God by Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood Bhagavad-Gītā as It Is, a translation and commentary of the Bhagavad...
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directed by Jack Smight, and the screenplay was written by novelist Christopher Isherwood and his longtime partner Don Bachardy. The film stars Leonard Whiting...
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actor Christopher Hitchens (1949–2011), English American author and journalist Christopher Isherwood (1904–1986), English American novelist Christopher Allan...
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published by Faber. His previous novel Mayflies (2020) won the Christopher Isherwood Prize, and was adapted into a two-part BBC television drama of the...
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is, or might be. Christopher Isherwood is mentioned in Sontag's essay: "Apart from a lazy two-page sketch in Christopher Isherwood's novel The World in...
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The Memorial (category Novels by Christopher Isherwood)
author Christopher Isherwood. The novel tells the story of an English family's disintegration in the days following World War I. Isherwood's second published...
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author Christopher Isherwood who falsely claimed to be her impregnator. These factual events served as the genesis for a short story by Isherwood which...
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Prater Violet (category Novels by Christopher Isherwood)
Prater Violet (1945) is Christopher Isherwood's fictional first person account of film-making. The Prater is a large park and amusement park in Vienna...
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