Christopher Isherwood (26 August 1904 – 4 January 1986) was an Anglo-American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist. His best-known works include Goodbye to Berlin (1939), a semi-autobiographical novel which inspired the musical Cabaret, A Single Man (1964) adapted as a film by Tom Ford in 2009, and Christopher and His Kind (1976), a memoir which “carried him into the heart of the Gay Liberation movement”.
Books in order of publication:
- All the Conspirators (1928; new edition 1957 with new foreword)
- The Memorial (1932)
- Mr Norris Changes Trains (1935; U.S. edition titled The Last of Mr Norris)
- The Dog Beneath the Skin (1935, with W. H. Auden)
- The Ascent of F6 (1937, with W. H. Auden)
- Sally Bowles (1937; later included in Goodbye to Berlin)
- On the Frontier (1938, with W. H. Auden)
- Lions and Shadows (1938, autobiographical fiction)
- Goodbye to Berlin (1939)
- Journey to a War (1939, with W. H. Auden)
- Bhagavad Gita, The Song of God (1944, with Prabhavananda)
- Vedanta for Modern Man (1945)
- Prater Violet (1945)
- The Berlin Stories (1945; contains Mr Norris Changes Trains and Goodbye to Berlin; reissued as The Berlin of Sally Bowles, 1975)
- Vedanta for the Western World (Unwin Books, London, 1949, ed. and contributor)
- The Condor and the Cows (1949, South-American travel diary)
- What Vedanta Means to Me (1951, pamphlet)
- The World in the Evening (1954)
- Down There on a Visit (1962)
- An Approach to Vedanta (1963)
- A Single Man (1964)
- Ramakrishna and His Disciples (1965)
- Exhumations (1966; journalism and stories)
- A Meeting by the River (1967)
- Essentials of Vedanta (1969)
- Kathleen and Frank (1971, about Isherwood’s parents)
- Frankenstein: The True Story (1973, with Don Bachardy; based on their 1973 film script)
- Christopher and His Kind (1976, autobiography), published by Sylvester & Orphanos
- My Guru and His Disciple (1980)
- October (1980, with Don Bachardy)
- The Mortmere Stories (with Edward Upward) (1994)
- Where Joy Resides: An Isherwood Reader (1989; Don Bachardy and James P. White, eds.)
- Diaries: 1939–1960, Katherine Bucknell, ed. (1996)
- Jacob’s Hands: A Fable (1997) originally co-written with Aldous Huxley
- Lost Years: A Memoir 1945–1951, Katherine Bucknell, ed. (2000)
- Lions and Shadows (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000)
- Kathleen and Christopher, Lisa Colletta, ed. (Letters to his mother, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005)
- Isherwood on Writing (University of Minnesota Press, 2007)
- The Sixties: Diaries:1960–1969 Katherine Bucknell, ed. 2010
- Liberation: Diaries:1970–1983 Katherine Bucknell, ed. 2012
- The Animals: Love Letters Between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy, Edited by Katherine Bucknell (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014)
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