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Christopher Isherwood


(Christopher William Bradshaw-Isherwood)
UK flag (1906 - 1986)

Best known for The Berlin Stories - the inspiration for the Tony and Academy Award-winning musical Cabaret - Christopher Isherwood was a major figure in twentieth-century fiction and the gay rights movement.

Awards: LA Times (1984)

Genres: Literary Fiction
 
Series
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Novels
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Collections
   On the Frontier (poems) (1938) (with W H Auden)
   The ascent of F.6 / On the frontier (1958) (with W H Auden)
   Exhumations (1966)
   The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris (1979)
   Selection (1979)
   People One Ought to Know (poems) (1982) (with Sylvain Mangeot)
   Where Joy Resides (1989)
   The Mortmere Stories (1994) (with Edward Upward)
   The Berlin Stories (2008)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Jacob's Hands (1998) (with Aldous Huxley)
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Anthologies edited
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Books containing stories by Christopher Isherwood

Awards
1984 Robert Kirsch Award

Christopher Isherwood recommends
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On Stage (1991)
Ray Bradbury
"The sheer lift and power of a truly original imagination exhilarate you... he is a very great and unusual talent."
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The Rotten Elements (1969)
(Spiral ascent, book 2)
Edward Upward
"So wonderful and so profoundly original, so calm and yet so deeply moving, that one can only call it a masterpiece."

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