Christopher Isherwood was born in Cheshire in 1904. He began to write at university and later moved to Berlin, where he gave English lessons to support himself. He witnessed Hitler's rise to power first hand and some of his best works, such as Mr Norris Changes Trains and Goodbye to Berlin, draw on these experiences. Isherwood travelled with W. H. Auden to China in the late 1930s before going to America in 1939 which he made his home for the rest of his life.
He died on 4 January 1986.
He died on 4 January 1986.
