A childhood friend of W.H. Auden, he lived in Germany in the years prior to World War II and based his most popular short stories on his experiences.
Of him Virginia Woolf said, "You hold the future of the novel in your hands." A childhood friend of W.H. Auden, he lived in Germany in the years prior to World War II and based his most popular short stories on his experiences. Mr. Issyvoo, his narrator through the Berlin stories, tries not to judge the people around him as they yield to the sway of Nazism and instead reports the human consequences. FTP name this author of "Mr. Norris Changes Trains" and "Goodbye to Berlin," as well as "Sally Bowles," the books which became "Cabaret."
Of him Virginia Woolf said, "You hold the future of the novel in your hands."
Christopher Isherwood