Christopher Isherwood (1904–1986)
Autor/a de A Single Man
Sobre l'autor
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 mostra'n més 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) mostra'n menys
Sèrie
Obres de Christopher Isherwood
The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Plays and Other Dramatic Writings, 1928-1938 (1988) — Col·laborador — 54 exemplars
Sally Bowles 5 exemplars
A Berlin Diary (Winter 1932-33) {short story} 2 exemplars
A Berlin Diary (Autumn 1930) {short story} 2 exemplars
I Am Waiting 2 exemplars
The Landauers 2 exemplars
On Ruegen Island {short story} 2 exemplars
Essentials of Vedanta 2 exemplars
Dorian Book Quarterly 2 exemplars
Dorian Book Quarterly (Issue #12) 1 exemplars
Passion: Men on Men {audio} — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Christopher Isherwood reads two lectures on the Bhagavad Gita by Swami Vivekananda [video recording] (2007) — Speaker — 1 exemplars
Masques: Revue des Homosexualities (Issue #4) 1 exemplars
Christopher Isherwood Collection: 3 Books 1 exemplars
The Berlin of Sally Bowles 1 exemplars
Hypothesis and Belief {article} 1 exemplars
Isherwood Christopher 1 exemplars
Interview 1 exemplars
H. G. Wells {article} 1 exemplars
R. L. S. {article} 1 exemplars
Katherine Mansfield {article} 1 exemplars
Vivekananda and Sarah Bernhardt {article} 1 exemplars
Klaus Mann {article} 1 exemplars
Mr. Lancaster {short story} 1 exemplars
Người Cô Độc 1 exemplars
Obres associades
The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists (2000) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions — 550 exemplars
In Another Part of the Forest: An Anthology of Gay Short Fiction (1994) — Col·laborador — 174 exemplars
Masquerade: Queer Poetry in America to the End of World War II (2004) — Col·laborador — 19 exemplars
WHAT VEDANTA MEANS TO ME CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE ALDOUS HUXLEY - CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD - AND GERALD HEARD (1961) — Col·laborador — 8 exemplars
Het neusje van de zalm een feestelijke bloemlezing uit Querido's 'vlaggetjesreeks' (1986) — Col·laborador — 5 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Isherwood, Christopher
- Nom oficial
- Bradshaw-Isherwood, Christopher William
- Altres noms
- Isherwood, Christopher
- Data de naixement
- 1904-08-26
- Data de defunció
- 1986-01-04
- Lloc d'enterrament
- body donated to science
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- UK
USA (1946) - País (per posar en el mapa)
- UK
- Lloc de naixement
- High Lane, Cheshire, England, UK
- Lloc de defunció
- Santa Monica, California, USA
- Causa de la mort
- cancer (prostate)
- Llocs de residència
- Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK
London, England, UK
Berlin, Germany
Copenhagen, Denmark
Sintra, Portugal
New York, New York, USA - Educació
- University of Cambridge (Corpus Christi College)
- Professions
- novelist
playwright
translator - Relacions
- Bachardy, Don (partner)
Hamilton, Gerald (friend) - Organitzacions
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1949)
- Premis i honors
- Robert Kirsch Award (1984)
Membres
Converses
Group Read, April 2020: Mr Norris Changes Trains a 1001 Books to read before you die (abril 2020)
Ressenyes
Llistes
Five star books (1)
Favorite Memoirs (1)
Europe (1)
5 Best 5 Years (1)
Modernism (1)
A Novel Cure (1)
Tagged Widows (1)
Books I've Read (1)
Folio Society (1)
1930s (2)
Read These Too (1)
Epistolary Books (1)
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 85
- També de
- 29
- Membres
- 13,034
- Popularitat
- #1,787
- Valoració
- 3.9
- Ressenyes
- 276
- ISBN
- 500
- Llengües
- 21
- Preferit
- 42
De fet és un relat autobiogràfic molt ben fet i que es llegeix amb ganes.… (més)