page_title: Christopher Isherwood
hierarchical_section_title: Christopher Isherwood
caption_attribution_description: Daily Herald Archive at the National Media Museum. This photograph shows playwright Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986) chatting at Victoria Station, London.
context_page_description: Christopher Isherwood was an Anglo-American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist. His best-known works include Goodbye to Berlin, a semi-autobiographical novel which inspired the musical Cabaret, A Single Man adapted as a film by Tom Ford in 2009, and Christopher and His Kind, a memoir which "carried him into the heart of the Gay Liberation movement".
context_section_description: Christopher Isherwood (26 August 1904 – 4 January 1986) was an Anglo-American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist. His best-known works include Goodbye to Berlin (1939), a semi-autobiographical novel which inspired the musical Cabaret, A Single Man (1964) adapted as a film by Tom Ford in 2009, and Christopher and His Kind (1976), a memoir which "carried him into the heart of the Gay Liberation movement".
caption: Christopher Isherwood in 1938
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