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n. - United States writer (born in England) whose best known novels portray Berlin in the 1930's and who collaborated with W. H. Auden in writing plays in verse (1904-1986).

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  • (Hitler, the biographer convinces us, could never hold a candle to Kathleen in Isherwood's demonology.)
  • Once Isherwood is in California, the book begins to approximate Parker's insightful (and leaner) 1989 biography of the editor and memoirist J.R. Ackerley.
  • Still, Mr. Isherwood is quite comfortable telling the world blithely that Rain is utterly devoid of "authenticity."
  • The watercolour made Isherwood look jowly, grim, Churchillian.
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