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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Christopher Isherwood
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(1904–86) English-born novelist, best known for his autobiographical fiction set in Berlin during the period when Hitler was rising to power. Mr Norris Changes Trains (1935) was followed by Goodbye to Berlin (1939), a collection of sketches of which one, about the delightfully eccentric cabaret artist Sally Bowles, later became the basis for the musical comedy Cabaret (1968). Isherwood collaborated with *Auden during the 1930s on three political dramas and on a book about their visit to China (Journey to a War 1938). They emigrated together to the USA in 1939 and were both naturalized in 1946. A Single Man (1964) and Christopher and His Kind (1976) were accounts of his own homosexuality. His companion was the artist, Don Bachardy, who published in 1990 his drawings of Isherwood during his last illness.
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