![]() ![]() ![]() In Berlin in 1932, he also began an important relationship with Heinz Neddermeyer, a young German with whom he fled the Nazis in 1933. His experiences provided the material for Mister Norris Changes Trains (1935) and Goodbye to Berlin (1938), still his most famous book. In 1930, he moved to Berlin, where he taught English, dabbled in Communism, and enthusiastically explored his homosexuality. He briefly attended medical school and progressed with his first two novels, All the Conspirators (1928) and The Memorial (1932). Isherwood tells the story in his first autobiography, Lions and Shadows.Īfter Isherwood wrote joke answers on his second-year exams, Cambridge University in 1925 asked him to leave. Auden he wrote three plays- The Dog Beneath the Skin (1932), The Ascent of F6 (1936), and On the Frontier (1938). ![]() Isherwood was a novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist. British-born American writer Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood portrayed Berlin in the early 1930s in his best known works, such as Goodbye to Berlin (1939), the basis for the musical Cabaret (1966). ![]()
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