Christopher Isherwood
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Christopher Isherwood was an English and American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist. His best-known works include Goodbye to Berlin, a semi-autobiographical novel which w
Isherwood in 1938
Repton School
Jean Ross, a British expatriate and cabaret singer upon whom Isherwood based the character of Sally Bowles
Isherwood (left) and W. H. Auden (right), photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1939
Goodbye to Berlin
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Goodbye to Berlin is a 1939 novel by English-American writer Christopher Isherwood set during the waning days of the Weimar Republic. The novel recounts Isherwood's 1929–1932 sojourn in Berlin as a pl
Christopher Isherwood
…August 1904 – 4 January 1986) was an English and American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist. His best-known works include Goodbye to Berlin (1939), a semi-autobiographical novel which was the basis for Cabaret (1966); A Single Man (1964), adapted into a film directed by Tom Ford in 2009…
The cover of the first edition
Julie Harris as the insouciant Sally Bowles