Christopher Isherwood

A fresh and approachable critical biography of the twentieth-century Anglo-American writer.   The year 1939 was pivotal for Christopher Isherwood: he emigrated to the United States and his novel  Goodbye to Berlin , which inspired the hit musical  Cabaret , was feted by critics for its portrait of a city under the shadow of fascism. During the Second World War, Isherwood became a pacifist and studied in a Hindu monastery, provoking indignation back in Britain. His American novels,