Though it downplays unflattering details, Katherine Bucknell’s big biography hails the 20th-century writer as an early advocate for the “chosen family.” By Alexandra Jacobs When you purchase an ...

In his novel “A Single Man,” a masterpiece of love and loss, Christopher Isherwood wrote, “As for the animals, those devilish reminders, George had to get them out of his sight immediately; he ...

IN A crisp white shirt Christopher Isherwood, by then a famous writer in his sixties, stares across at his lover Don Bachardy, an artist thirty years his junior, in their house in Santa Monica. It is ...

When they met on a Malibu beach in 1953, Christopher Isherwood was 49 and Don Bachardy was 18. They became lovers and companions for the next three decades, until Isherwood’s death in 1986. While ...

A first rate biography of the man the writer and the lover DAVID HOCKNEY Bucknell s research is impressive and her judgements astute GUARDIANAn engrossing new biography of the man whose writings about ...

“Christopher Isherwood: Inside Out” is an insightful biography of the prolific English writer, author of “Goodbye to Berlin” (the inspiration behind “Cabaret”), “A Single Man,” and “Christopher and ...

"I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking," is one of the most celebrated opening lines in a 20th-century novel, but it's also a mission statement by its author ...

CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD INSIDE OUT. By Katherine Bucknell. FSG. 864 pages. $45. Christopher Isherwood is probably better known for two film adaptations of his work rather than the work that inspired the ...

Isherwood's resurrected classic—now a feature film—takes us to Southern California in the 1960s and into one day in the life of George, a gay, middle-aged English professor, struggling to cope with ...

1. When Christopher Isherwood moved to Berlin in 1929, it was because “Berlin meant Boys”—and this memoir, first published almost five decades later, became a classic of gay liberation. But the book ...