The love story between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy--in their own words
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 ye[...]
Provides a loving testimony of a relationship that lasted until Chris' death in 1986 - and survived affairs (on both sides) and a thirty-year-age-gap.[...]
Christopher Isherwood was a celebrated English writer when he met the Californian teenager Don Bachardy on a Santa Monica beach in 1952. They spent their first night together on Valentine's Day 1953. Defying the conventions, the two men began living as an openly gay couple in an otherwise closeted H[...]