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	Christopher Isherwood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Christopher Isherwood (prior to 1946 Christopher William Bradshaw-Isherwood) (August 26, 1904 – January 4, 1986), Anglo-American novelist, was born in the ancestral seat of his family, Wybersley Hall, High Lane, in the north west of England.
		Auden and Isherwood travelled first to China in 1938, then emigrated to the United States in 1939.
		Isherwood became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1946.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Christopher_Isherwood (408 words)

	Christopher Isherwood Collection
		Christopher William Bradshaw-Isherwood was born in Cheshire, England, on August 26, 1904, to Kathleen Machell-Smith and Frank Bradshaw-Isherwood.
		In 1925, Isherwood was asked to withdraw from the university, and he took a job in London as a part-time secretary to a string quartet and began to write novels.
		Isherwood had determined during his years in Berlin that freedom was more than what the left wing was preaching at that time and that the homophobia that prevailed in this movement was one of the obvious indications that this freedom was to be limited to a select few.
	www.hrc.utexas.edu /research/fa/isherwood.html (1157 words)

	Berlin: The City as Body The City as Metaphor
		In 1938 Isherwood published Lions and Shadows, an amusing and sensitive account of his early life and friendships while a student at the University of Cambridge.
		It was also in 1939 that Isherwood turned to pacifism and the self-abnegation of Indian Vedanta, becoming a follower of Swami Prabhavananda.
		From 1953 on, Isherwood lived with a companion, Don Bachardy, a painter and portraitist, and both later became involved in homosexual-rights causes.
	www.stanford.edu /dept/german/berlin_class/people/isherwood.html (404 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| LRB essay \| Setting the record straight
		Isherwood was a novelist with the inclinations of an autobiographer.
		Yet as Isherwood and the Christopher of Lost Years know, it is not always clear whether learning the rules is a matter of competence or compliance - part of the pleasure of mastery is the submission it entails.
		Christopher has the knack of being very impressed by himself; and Lost Years is heartening because Isherwood is more than willing to be charmed by this, and also to enjoy seeing through it (ruthless unmasking would be just another knack of the self-important).
	books.guardian.co.uk /lrb/articles/0,,395280,00.html (3745 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Christopher Isherwood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Christopher Isherwood’s life and writing are often seen in two conveniently defined halves: one English, the other American.
		Isherwood was born in England in 1904, onto a withering branch of a distinguished family tree that had roots in Cheshire extending back to the Civil War.
		Isherwood studied at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he again met Auden, who was then studying at Oxford and becoming known as a poet, and Stephen Spender.
	www.literaryencyclopedia.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=2317 (648 words)

	glbtq >> literature >> Isherwood, Christopher
		A major Anglo-American novelist and a pioneer in the gay liberation movement, Christopher Isherwood created gay characters whose homosexuality is a simple given, an integral part of the wholeness of personality and an emblem of their common humanity.
		Certainly, Isherwood's fascination with the antiheroic hero, his rebellion against bourgeois respectability, his empathy with the alienated and the excluded, and his ironic perspective are all intertwined with his awareness of himself as a homosexual.
		Isherwood sees the homosexual as a faithful mirror of the human condition and a symbol both of individuality and of the variousness of human possibilities.
	www.glbtq.com /literature/isherwood_c.html (711 words)

	Gadfly Online.
		Isherwood, who died in 1986, "developed" from the sundry pieces of his autobiography some of the finest fiction of the century, synthesizing wonders out of the mundane—and turning Sally, a tawdry nightclub act, into an enduring character with a life of her own.
		Isherwood, itching for more travel, was certain of his calling as a novelist, having abandoned not only Cambridge—he feared an inevitable appointment as a school headmaster on graduation—but an attempt at medical school as well.
		Isherwood was eventually forgiven for his supposed "anti-patriotic" indiscretions and remained a critically praised writer until his death.
	www.gadflyonline.com /archive/NovDec99/archive-camera.html (2090 words)

	Knitting Circle Christopher Isherwood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In 1939 Christopher Isherwood emigrated to California to be a scriptwriter for MGM, and in 1946 he took US citizenship.
		"Christopher and His Kind was a key book in the gay liberation movement, pioneeringly candid in its revelations of Isherwood's homosexuality and the gay world he had inhabited all his adult life, yet wisely stopping short of intimate anatomical detail and boastful lists of sexual conquests.
		Christopher Isherwood's representation of gay characters in his writing is discussed in detail.
	myweb.lsbu.ac.uk /~stafflag/isherwood.html (1795 words)

	C. Isherwood
		This is Isherwood's own account, reconstructed from datebooks, letters, and memory nearly thirty years later, of his experience during those missing years: his activities in Santa Monica, and also in New York and London, just after the war.
		Isherwood never prepared Lost years for publication because he rapidly became caught up in writing the book that established him as a hero of gay liberation, Christopher and His Kind.
		Isherwood is probably best known for The Berlin Stories, stories that fictionalize his life in pre-World War II Berlin and that were adapted as the stage play I Am a Camera and the popular musical Cabaret.
	www.queertheory.com /histories/i/isherwood_christopher.htm (983 words)

	Isherwood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Christopher Bradshaw Isherwood was born in Disley, Cheshire, England on a Friday night just before midnight on August 26th of 1904.
		Isherwood never hid his homosexuality and, although he has become quite a cult figure amongst the modern gay community, he personally hated the term 'gay' and simply preferred being called 'queer.' Isherwood has always been seen as a champion with his controversial stand on homosxual liberation which he plainly reflected in some of his novels.
		Isherwood enjoyed this bar and it's said that he could often be found 'just hanging around with the boys.' This was most likely due to his romantic views toward the blond, blue-eyed German boys who also frequented the place.
	www.redflame93.com /Isherwood.html (1027 words)

	Christopher Isherwood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Christopher Isherwood (prior to 1946 Christopher William Bradshaw-Isherwood) (August 26, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Cabaret is a 1966 broadway musical, based on john van drutens play i am a camera, based in its turn on stories by christopher isherwood,...
		China () is a country located chiefly in continental east asia with some outer territories in central asia and offshore islands in the pacific ocean...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/christopher_isherwood.htm (1373 words)

	Christopher Isherwood: An Inventory of His Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
		In 1925, Isherwood was asked to withdraw from the university and so he took a job in London as a part-time secretary to a string quartet and began to write novels.
		Isherwood received his immigration papers and was a conscientious objector to the war, however, the age was lowered and he never had to serve his new country.
		By the 1970s, Isherwood had began to publicly discuss how homophobia was one aspect of the hate that must be overcome to reach a level of peace in the world.
	www.lib.utexas.edu /taro/uthrc/00061/hrc-00061.html (1229 words)

	The New Yorker: PRINTABLES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Isherwood felt he had his reasons: “It was easy for these impressive adults to make a suggestible little boy feel guilty,” he wrote of his father’s death, in “Kathleen and Frank.” “Yet he soon started to react against his guilt.
		Isherwood was, at heart, a fetishist; anyone’s body would do as long as it conformed to the body (and age) in his mind.
		Throughout his life, Isherwood preferred the kind of sex he experienced as a boy in public school: a bit of horsing around before the Act, followed by a kind of moony romanticism, particularly if the loved one could not be had for a second or third bout of wrestling.
	www.newyorker.com /printables/critics/050117crbo_books1 (2667 words)

	Sample text for Library of Congress control number 2004053185
		For Kathleen Isherwood, the past represented a place to which she could escape, the place where she had been most happy; for Christopher Isherwood, the past was a treacherous bog into which you would be sucked down and suffocated.
		Isherwood’s family background was important not only because he made use of it in his fiction but also because it gave him something tangible against which to rebel.
		Isherwood’s father may have been a professional soldier, but he came from a family of landed gentry which had a “seat” in Cheshire and was able to trace its origins back into the sixteenth century.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/samples/random051/2004053185.html (2110 words)

	Biography of Christopher Isherwood
		Writer, Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood was born on 26 August 1904 in Cheshire, the son of a soldier, who died in World War I. Christopher Isherwood went to Repton and then studied history at Corpus Christi College, but left after deliberately failing his tripos.
		Christopher Isherwood wrote his first novel, All the Conspirators in 1928.
		Christopher Isherwood had continued writing up until the early 1980s and many of his works were autobiographical.
	www.biogs.com /famous/isherwood.html (353 words)

	RNW: Vox Humana : IsherwoodÂ´s time
		When Isherwood published his memoir Christopher and His Kind in 1976, the gay liberation movement in America was in full swing and he was an avid supporter.
		Isherwood used the funds to support other writers in their work.
		The library is celebrating the centenary of his birth with the exhibition Christopher Isherwood: A Writer and His World.
	www.radionetherlands.nl /features/cultureandhistory/040827vh.html (573 words)

	AllRefer.com - Christopher Isherwood (English Literature, 20th Century To The Present, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		A close friend of W. Auden, Isherwood collaborated with him on the dramas The Dog Beneath the Skin (1935), The Ascent of F6 (1936), and On the Frontier (1938), as well as on Journey to a War (1939), a book on China.
		Isherwood emigrated (1939) to the United States, becoming a citizen (1946).
		Isherwood was an early advocate of discarding the taboos against homosexuality, a subject discussed in his memoir, Christopher and His Kind (1972).
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/I/Isherwoo.html (385 words)

	Kathleen and Christopher
		Isherwood’s previously unpublished letters to his mother cast his early years as a writer in a new light.
		Because Isherwood destroyed his diaries from these years, these letters—published for the first time and edited and introduced by Lisa Colletta—provide one of the few records of this part of his life not filtered through the lens of time and memory.
		While Isherwood acknowledged that it took him a long time to come to terms with his mother’s influence on his life, the letters in Kathleen and Christopher dispute the prevalent idea that theirs was a relationship rife with conflict.
	www.upress.umn.edu /Books/I/isherwood_kathleen.html (362 words)

	The Condor and the Cows \| A South American Travel Diary \| Christopher Isherwood
		In addition, because Isherwood is traveling with Caskey, and since neither of them speak Spanish, not even a word, you can be sure that they when they aren't being partied by ex-pat Americans, they'll be hanging around with each other, drinking and fighting.
		Isherwood may be, as he famously observed, a camera --- but in this he's a camera with a lens screwed in the wrong way, one with Vaseline slicked all over it.
		Isherwood is too lazy to make the most of what could have been an true adventure into the depths of South America.
	www.ralphmag.org /CQ/isherwood.html (926 words)

	Christopher Isherwood
		In 1938 Isherwood started with Auden a journey to China, and recorded in JOURNEY TO A WAR (1939) his experiences in the country ravaged by civil war and a Japanese invasion.
		Isherwood settled in 1939 in southern California, where worked as a teacher and wrote for Hollywood films.
		Isherwood observes his character as if he were in an aquarium: "He crosses the front room, which he calls his study, and comes down the staircase.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /isherwoo.htm (1259 words)

	Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood. Biography and complete works
		Son of an army officer killed in World War I, Christopher Isherwood was born in Disley, Cheshire, England, and educated at the University of Cambridge.
		In 1939 Isherwood emigrated to California to be a scriptwriter for MGM, and in 1946 he took US citizenship.
		With Christopher and His Kind (1976), a witty and utterly frank account of his life from 1929 to 1939, Isherwood revealed his homosexuality and its overriding importance in his work.
	www.booksfactory.com /writers/isherwood.htm (777 words)

	Alibris: Isherwood
		In the course of Isherwood's spiritual discipleship to the Swami Prabhavananda in California in the 1940s he pursued a dramatic devotion to both spirituality and sensuality.
		Isherwood ironically captures life in Weimar Berlin, a city infamous for its flourishing demimonde and violent politics.
		Isherwood settled in California, where he studied under a Hindu monk, worked as a screenwriter, wrote novels, and maintained friendships with renowned celebrities, artists, and intellectuals.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Isherwood (1050 words)

	Lost Years: A Memoir 1945 - 1951 by Christopher Isherwood from HarperCollins Publishers
		Christopher doesn't admit this, but he emphasizes the importance of japam, rather than the importance of being with Swami, or of having daily access to the shrine, or of living in a religious community.
		Christopher had gone into the ocean and was swimming with his trunks off, he was wearing them around his neck, as he often did.
		Christopher refused to have an orgasm but he had been excited, and he jacked off later, when he had returned to the house...
	www.harpercollins.com /global_scripts/product_catalog/book_xml.asp?isbn=0061180017&tc=cx (1028 words)

	Review of Where Joy Resides: A Christopher Ishwerwood Reader (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Christopher Isherwood is one of those writers I've always admired but ultimately taken for granted.
		These were Isherwood's first literary successes, peopled with eccentric characters like the flighty Sally Bowles and recounted with cool charm by the first person narrator, a young Englishman named Christopher Isherwood.
		Isherwood can be habit-forming and Where Joy Resides omits some of his very best work, such as Christopher and His Kind and A Meeting by the River.
	www.webcom.com /~bsx/articles/joy.html (661 words)

	Christopher Isherwood wrote about California and about war. What would he say about them today, his 100th birthday?
		In Isherwood's case, even a cursory reading of his California work discloses a master stylist whose understandable importance to gay literature, California literature and the literature of pre-World War II Germany tends to obscure his contribution to literature, full stop.
		Isherwood wrote this in his diary on Jan. 20, 1940, scant months after arriving in America with his lifelong friend and sometime collaborator W.H. Auden.
		Isherwood's undisguised alter ego is dragooned into rewriting a frivolous romantic comedy for a charismatic European director, based on Berthold Viertel, and a vulgar London- based American producer based on Robert Stevenson, the chameleonic survivor who would later end his career directing "The Love Bug" and "The Shaggy D.A."
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/08/26/DDGHK8DI6M1.DTL (1515 words)

	Everywhere man: sexually, spiritually, and politically, Christopher Isherwood lived his life to the limits—a gay ...
		Having been granted access to Isherwood's entire archive, Parker shows us a man who seemed to have everything going for him yet felt such inner chaos that a full-scale search for the meaning of lee was the only answer.
		Isherwood became the inspiration for Somerset Maugham's classic novel of spiritual quest, The Razor's Edge.
		It couldn't have been in better hands, for by that point Isherwood's gayness had come to full literary fruition with his masterpiece, A Single Man, and Isherwood himself had become an elder to the gay liberation movement--a role he accepted gladly.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1589/is_2004_Dec_21/ai_n8706688 (414 words)

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