Diaries

These journals are kept by Christopher Isherwood, the English-born novelist who moved to the United States in 1939 and later became a revered figure in the gay liberation movement. Beginning with that crossing, the entries track his days in a new country, including his commitment to pacifism during the Second World War. The diaries also record his social world, which brought him into contact with Hollywood performers and writers of the era, among them his close circle of friends such as W. H. Auden and Aldous Huxley.

The volume is a candid, first-person account of an author looking at his own life as it unfolds, with his observations on art, friendship, and the politics of his time. Readers interested in mid-century American culture, literary life, or the personal history of a pioneering gay writer will find much here. This edition is a reissue of the original published text.