Christopher Isherwood

Christopher Isherwood was an English and American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer and diarist, born in 1904 and died in 1986. He was best known for Goodbye to Berlin (1939), a semi-autobiographical novel that was the basis for Cabaret (1966), and for A Single Man (1964), which Tom Ford adapted into a 2009 film. His memoir Christopher and His Kind (1976) carried him into the heart of the Gay Liberation movement, and his short-story collection The Berlin Stories belongs on the same shelf.