This remarkable second volume of Christopher Isherwood's diaries opens on his fifty-sixth birthday, as the fifties give way to the decade of social and sexual revolution. These pages are crammed with wicked gossip and probing psychological insights about the cultural icons of the time--Francis Bacon[...]
"A slip of a wild boy: with quick silver eyes," as Virginia Woolf saw him in the 1930s, Christopher Isherwood journeyed and changed with his century, until, by the 1980s, he was celebrated as the finest prose writer in English and the grand old man of gay liberation. In this final volume of his diar[...]
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[...]