Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood was an English-American novelist. At Repton School Isherwood met his lifelong friend Edward Upward, with whom he wrote the extravagant "Mortmere" stories, of which one was published during his lifetime, a few others appeared after his death, and others he summarised in Lions and Shadows. He deliberately failed his tripos and left Corpus Christi College, Cambridge without a degree in 1925. For the next few years he lived with violinist André Mangeot, worked as secretary to Mangeot's string quartet and studied medicine. During this time he wrote a... book of nonsense poems, People One Ought to Know, with illustrations by Mangeot's eleven-year-old son, Sylvain. It was not published until 1982. In 1925 he was reintroduced to W. H. Auden and became his literary mentor and partner in an intermittent, casual liaison. Auden sent his poems to Isherwood for comment and approval. Through Auden, Isherwood met Stephen Spender, with whom he later spent much time in Germany. His first novel, All the Conspirators, appeared in 1928.
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| Birthdate: | August 26, 1904 |
| Birthplace: | High Lane |
| Date of death: | January 4, 1986 |
| Education: | Corpus Christi College, Cambridge |
| Religion: | Hinduism |
| Also known as: | William Bradshaw Isherwood, Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood |