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Christopher Isherwood

Died in 1986

Christopher Isherwood was born in 1904. He left Cambridge without a degree after answering the examination questions with jokes, gave up medicine, and spent four years in Berlin between 1929 and 1933, where he gave English lessons and rented a room from a landlady. He went to the United States in 1939 with a poet who appears in this catalogue, settled in California, became a disciple of a Vedantist teacher and lived for more than thirty years with a painter. He died in Santa Monica in 1986.

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