![]() ![]() They also collaborated on a book of travel writings called Journey to a War (1939). As young men they explored gay life in early 1930s Berlin and wrote three plays together: The Dog Beneath the Skin (1935), The Ascent of F6 (1936), and On the Frontier (1938). Auden had an epic, life-long friendship-the kind people write books about. Hear him read from his work on the album Christopher Isherwood Reads…, which he recorded when he was 71 years old, or listen to a recording of a live reading of his work here, starting at 3:44. įind an overview of all of Isherwood’s published works here. Watch the author talk about his life and work in this short collection of filmed interviews, spanning nearly four decades, and this 1974 interview. ![]() For a book-length biography, check out Peter Parker’s Isherwood: A Life Revealed. Read a short biography of Christopher Isherwood here. But as he told Studs Terkel in this 1977 interview, to him, Berlin meant, above all, boys. His stories about his years there inspired the musical Cabaret, which shaped the image of decadent interwar Berlin in the popular imagination. ![]() ![]() Credit: Howard Coster/© National Portrait Gallery, London Īuthor Christopher Isherwood left England for Germany in 1929. ![]()
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