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Christopher Isherwood

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British-American novelist (1904-1986)

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Christopher Isherwood was an English and American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist.

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Repton SchoolRepton SchoolIsherwood in 1973Isherwood in 1973Swami Prabhavananda circa 1972Swami Prabhavananda circa 1972Plaque, Nollendorfstraße 17. Isherwood lived here between March 1929 and January/February 1933. (The dates on the plaque are incorrect: Apart from the date of death being the 4th, not the 5th, Isherwood moved to Nollendorfstraße in December 1930 and, according to his memoirs Christopher and His Kind, left three days after witnessing the May 10th 1933 Nazi book burning at Opernplatz[79])Plaque, Nollendorfstraße 17. Isherwood lived here between March 1929 and January/February 1933. (The dates on the plaque are incorrect: Apart from the date of death being the 4th, not the 5th, Isherwood moved to Nollendorfstraße in December 1930 and, according to his memoirs Christopher and His Kind, left three days after witnessing the May 10th 1933 Nazi book burning at Opernplatz[79])

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Christopher Isherwood was an English and American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist. His best-known works include Goodbye to Berlin (1939), a semi-autobiographical novel which was the basis for Cabaret (1966); A Single Man (1964), adapted into a film directed by Tom Ford in 2009; and Christopher and His Kind (1976), a memoir which "carried him into the heart of the Gay Liberation movement".

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United Kingdom
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deceased
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Lived 1904 to 1986 · aged 81
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