Christopher Isherwood (1904–1986)
Autor(a) de A Single Man
About the Author
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 mostrar mais 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) mostrar menos
Séries
Obras de Christopher Isherwood
The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Plays and Other Dramatic Writings, 1928-1938 (1988) — Contribuinte — 54 cópias
Sally Bowles 5 cópias
I Am Waiting 2 cópias
The Landauers 2 cópias
On Ruegen Island {short story} 2 cópias
Essentials of Vedanta 2 cópias
Dorian Book Quarterly 2 cópias
Dorian Book Quarterly (Issue #12) 1 exemplar(es)
Passion: Men on Men {audio} — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
The Dog Beneath the Skin Playbill: Harvard Dramatic Club 1 exemplar(es)
Christopher Isherwood reads two lectures on the Bhagavad Gita by Swami Vivekananda [video recording] (2007) — Speaker — 1 exemplar(es)
Mattachine Review (Volume 8, Number 5) "Views of the Damned" by Christopher Isherwood 1 exemplar(es)
Masques: Revue des Homosexualities (Issue #4) 1 exemplar(es)
Christopher Isherwood Collection: 3 Books 1 exemplar(es)
The Berlin of Sally Bowles 1 exemplar(es)
Hypothesis and Belief {article} 1 exemplar(es)
Isherwood Christopher 1 exemplar(es)
Interview 1 exemplar(es)
H. G. Wells {article} 1 exemplar(es)
R. L. S. {article} 1 exemplar(es)
Katherine Mansfield {article} 1 exemplar(es)
Vivekananda and Sarah Bernhardt {article} 1 exemplar(es)
Klaus Mann {article} 1 exemplar(es)
Mr. Lancaster {short story} 1 exemplar(es)
Người Cô Độc 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
The Assassin's Cloak: An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists (2000) — Contribuinte, algumas edições — 550 cópias
WHAT VEDANTA MEANS TO ME CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE ALDOUS HUXLEY - CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD - AND GERALD HEARD (1961) — Contribuinte — 8 cópias
Het neusje van de zalm een feestelijke bloemlezing uit Querido's 'vlaggetjesreeks' (1986) — Contribuinte — 5 cópias
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome padrão
- Isherwood, Christopher
- Nome de batismo
- Bradshaw-Isherwood, Christopher William
- Outros nomes
- Isherwood, Christopher
- Data de nascimento
- 1904-08-26
- Data de falecimento
- 1986-01-04
- Local de enterro
- body donated to science
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
USA (1946) - País (para mapa)
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- High Lane, Cheshire, England, UK
- Local de falecimento
- Santa Monica, California, USA
- Causa da morte
- cancer (prostate)
- Locais de residência
- Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK
London, England, UK
Berlin, Germany
Copenhagen, Denmark
Sintra, Portugal
New York, New York, USA - Educação
- University of Cambridge (Corpus Christi College)
- Ocupação
- novelist
playwright
translator - Relacionamentos
- Bachardy, Don (partner)
Hamilton, Gerald (friend) - Organizações
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1949)
- Premiações
- Robert Kirsch Award (1984)
Membros
Discussions
Group Read, April 2020: Mr Norris Changes Trains em 1001 Books to read before you die (Abril 2020)
Resenhas
Listas
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 85
- Also by
- 29
- Membros
- 13,053
- Popularidade
- #1,784
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Resenhas
- 276
- ISBNs
- 500
- Idiomas
- 21
- Favorito
- 42