Isherwood : a biography of Christopher Isherwood / [by] Jonathan Fryer.

In this absorbing biography, Jonathan Fryer chronicles the many facets of Isherwood's varied, colourful life: his travel and times in London, Berlin, the Far East, South America and the United States; his friendships with the great names of the artistic world, W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Aldous Huxley, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Thomas Mann, Igor Stravinsky, Greta Garbo and many others. He tells also of Isherwood's pacifist work with the Quakers during the Second World War; his connection with the Vedanta movement and life in a monastic community; his film work in Hollywood; and his belief in the necessity to talk freely about his homosexuality.