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Christopher Isherwood

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    (August 26, 1904-January 4, 1986)
    Born in High Lane, England, United Kingdom
    Best known for his Berlin stories, 'Mr. Norris Changes Trains' (1935) and 'Goodbye Berlin' (1939)
    Also wrote 'The Dog Beneath the Skin' (1935), 'Prater Violet' (1945), 'The World in the Evening' (1954), 'Down There on a Visit' (1962) and 'A Single Man' (1964)
    Became an American citizen (1945)

Why he might be annoying:

    He deliberately failed his final exams and left Cambridge without a degree.
    His Berlin stories are remembered less for their own literary merit than for inspiring the musical 'Cabaret.'
    W. H. Auden called him a 'repressed heterosexual.'
    At age 49, he began dating 18-year-old Don Bachardy.

Why he might not be annoying:

    When he was 11, his father was killed in World War I.
    Gore Vidal called him 'The best prose writer in English.'
    He and Bachardy were together for over 30 years until Isherwood's death.
    He met Bachardy on Valentine's Day. (How romantic!)

Credit: C. Fishel


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Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 7 Votes: 71.43% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 6 Votes: 16.67% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 9 Votes: 44.44% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 4 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 3 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 10 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 14 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 26 Votes: 61.54% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 73 Votes: 69.86% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 57 Votes: 78.95% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 66 Votes: 63.64% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 34 Votes: 47.06% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 27 Votes: 62.96% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 30 Votes: 66.67% Annoying