The characters that "camera" captured in that novel, and in his 1935 work, "The Last of Mr. In this book, he made his famous remark concerning his artistic goals: "I am a camera with its shutter open and quite passive, recording, not thinking." "Goodbye to Berlin" was one of two novels he wrote about his four-year stint as an English teacher in Berlin before World War II. Isherwood wrote most successfully in autobiography and fiction - and seemed to walk a razor-thin line between the two seemingly different art forms. The author of plays, film scripts, and travel books, Mr. A promising writer in the 1920s, he became a spokesman for homosexual rights in the 1970s and 1980s. He witnessed war in Europe and the Far East, helped run a Quaker hostel in the United States and eventually became a denizen of Hollywood. His career and seemingly endless wanderings took him from upper-middle-class England to the decadent Berlin of the late 1920s and early 1930s. Christopher Isherwood, 81, the noted British-American author who is perhaps best known for his 1939 semi-autobiographical novel "Goodbye to Berlin," which was made into two plays and twice filmed, died of cancer Jan.
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