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Article: Author Christopher Isherwood; writings inspired film `Cabaret'
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 6, 1986
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SANTA MONICA, Calif. Christopher Isherwood, whose tales of
pre-World War II Berlin were the basis of the Academy Award-winning
film "Cabaret," has died of cancer at 81.
Mr. Isherwood, who was working on an untitled biography, died at
his oceanview home Saturday morning, artist Don Bachardy, his friend
of 33 years, said yesterday.
He had been seriously ill for several months with prostate
cancer.
"He holds the key to the English novel in his hands," W.
Somerset Maugham once said of Mr. Isherwood. Virginia Woolf called
him "the great hope of English letters."
No services were planned because "he didn't want any," Bachardy
said.
Mr. Isherwood, once a medical student at the ...