Christopher and His Kind: 1929-1939

An indispensable memoir by the author of Goodbye to Berlin, one of the most prominent writers of his generation.

Originally published in 1976, Christopher and His Kind covers the most memorable ten years in the writer's life—from 1928, when Christopher Isherwood left England to spend a week in Berlin and decided to stay there indefinitely, to 1939, when he arrived in America. His friends and colleagues during this time included W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, and E. M. Forster, as well as colo...