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A Short Biography of Christopher Isherwood

Author Name:

Christopher Isherwood

Born As:

William Bradshaw

Other Names:

Christopher Isherwood

Born:

26 Aug 1904

Died:

04 Jan 1986




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Writer and satirist                          
Selected Works:

All the Conspirators - 1928; new edition 1957 with new foreword
The Memorial - 1932
Mr Norris Changes Trains - 1935; U.S. edition titled The Last of Mr Norris
The Dog Beneath the Skin - 1935, with W. H. Auden
The Ascent of F6 - 1937, with W. H. Auden
Sally Bowles - 1937; later included in Goodbye to Berlin
On the Frontier - 1938, with W. H. Auden
Lions and Shadows - 1938, autobiography
Goodbye to Berlin - 1939
Journey to a War - 1939, with W. H. Auden
Bhagavad Gita, The Song of God, by Prabhavananda and Isherwood - 1944
Vedanta for Modern Man - 1945
Prater Violet - 1945
The Berlin Stories - 1945; contains Mr Norris Changes Trains and Goodbye to Berlin; reissued as The Berlin of Sally Bowles, 1975
Vedanta for the Western World - Unwin Books, London, 1949, ed. and contributor
The Condor and the Cows - 1949, South-American travel diary
What Vedanta Means to Me - 1951, pamphlet
The World in the Evening - 1954
Down There on a Visit - 1962
An Approach to Vedanta - 1963
A Single Man - 1964
Ramakrishna and His Disciples - 1965
Exhumations - 1966; journalism and stories
A Meeting by the River - 1967
Essentials of Vedanta - 1969
Kathleen and Frank - 1971, about Isherwood's parents
Frankenstein: The True Story - 1973, with Don Bachardy; based on their 1973 filmscript
Christopher and His Kind - 1976, autobiography
My Guru and His Disciple - 1980
October - 1980, with Don Bachardy
The Mortmere Stories - with Edward Upward - 1994
Where Joy Resides: An Isherwood Reader - 1989; Don Bachardy and James P. White, eds.
Diaries: 1939–1960, Katherine Bucknell, ed. - 1996
Jacob's Hands: A Fable - 1997 originally co-written with Aldous Huxley
Lost Years: A Memoir 1945–1951, Katherine Bucknell, ed. - 2000
Lions and Shadows - Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000
Kathleen and Christopher, Lisa Colletta, ed. - Letters to his mother, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press], 2005
Isherwood on Writing - University of Minnesota Press, 2007
Translations:
Charles Baudelaire, Intimate Journals - 1930; revised edition 1947
The Song of God: Bhagavad-Gita - with Swami Prabhavananda, 1944
Shankara's Crest-Jewel of Discrimination - with Swami Prabhavananda, 1947
How to Know God: The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali - with Swami Prabhavananda, 1953

Work on Vedanta and the West:0

Vedanta and the West was the official publication of the Vedanta Society of Southern California. It offered essays by many of the leading intellectuals of the time and had contributions from Aldous Huxley, Gerald Heard, Alan Watts, J. Krishnamurti, W. Somerset Maugham, and many others.
Isherwood was Managing Editor from 1943 until 1945. Together with Huxley and Heard, he served on the Editorial Advisory Board from 1951 until 1962.
Isherwood wrote the following articles that appeared in Vedanta and the West:
Vivekananda and Sarah Bernhardt – 1943
On Translating the Gita – 1944
Hypothesis and Belief – 1944
The Gita and War – 1944
What is Vedanta? – 1944
Ramakrishna and Vivekananda – 1945
The Problem of the Religious Novel – 1946
Religion Without Prayers – 1946
Foreword to a Man of Boys – 1950
An Introduction – 1951
What Vedanta Means to Me – 1951
Who Is Ramakrishna? – 1957
Ramakrishna and the Future – 1958
The Home of Ramakrishna – 1958
Ramakrishna: A First Chapter – 1959
The Birth of Ramakrishna – 1959
The Boyhood of Ramakrishna – 1959
How Ramakrishna Came to Dakshineswar – 1959
Early Days at Dakshineswar – 1959
The Vision of Kali – 1960
The Marriage of Ramakrishna – 1960
The Coming of the Bhariravi – 1960
Some Visitors to Dakshineswar – 1960
Tota Puri – 1960
The Writer and Vedanta – 1961
Mathur – 1961
Sarada and Chandra – 1962
Keshab Sen – 1962
The Coming of the Disciples – 1962
Introduction to Vivekananda – 1962
Naren – 1963
The Training of Naren – 1963
An Approach to Vedanta – 1963
The Young Monks – 1963
Some Great Devotees – 1963
The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna – 1963
The Last Year – 1964
The Story Continues – 1964
Letters of Swami Vivekananda – 1968
Essentials of Vedanta – 1969                          

Partners	Heinz Neddermeyer - 1932–1937
             Don Bachardy - 1953–1986                          
                          
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