Isherwood (Magill’s Literary Annual 2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Peter Parker
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1904-1986
- Setting: England, Europe, and California
- Principal Characters: Christopher Isherwood, Kathleen (Machell-Smith) Isherwood, Richard Isherwood, W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Edward Upward, E. M. Forster, Berthold Viertel, John Frederick Lehmann, Swami Prabhavananda, Jean Ross, Gerald Hamilton
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Europe or Europeans, California, Spiritual life or spirituality, Novelists, England or English people, Fame, Berlin
- Locales: California, England
Peter Parker's highly readable biography of Christopher Isherwood provides the most intimate portrait to date of the author's life, from his birth in a privileged English family to his death in California more than eighty years later. With unprecedented access to Isherwood's diaries from 1939 through 1983, as well as the diaries kept by Isherwood's mother throughout her long life, an incredible number of unpublished letters both to and from the author, abandoned manuscripts, and personal notes, Parker has created what is likely to remain the authoritative biography of Isherwood for many...
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