The Animals

“Theirs is an enormous love. . . . These are tender, sweet, campy love letters we are given the privilege of reading.” —Annalisa Quinn, NPR Books The English novelist and screenwriter Christopher Isherwood was already famous as the author of Goodbye to Berlin when he met Don Bachardy, a California teenager, on the beach in Santa Monica in 1952. Within a year, they began to live together as an openly gay couple, defying convention in the closeted world of Hollywood. Isherwood was forty-