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Memoirs 486; The Night of the Iguana 138, 400n, 488; Out Cry (earlier title Two-Character Play) 179–80, 184, 231, 308; A Streetcar Named Desire 259–60, 312, 343, 346, 347, 348, 349, 410; Tennessee Williams’ Letters to Donald Windham 574
Williamson, Nicol 38n
Willingham, Calder 266–7, 466
Willis, Gordon 297, 308
Wilson, Angus 280, 443, 820
Wilson, Colin 213, 820–21
Wilson, Ed 431
Wilson, Romer, The Death of Society 17, 154–5
Wilson, William 157, 377–8, 460, 551–2, 821
Wiltshire, England 51–2
Windham, Donald, Tennessee Williams’ Letters to Donald Windham 574
Wingreen, Jason 227, 230, 821
Winslow, Walter (pseud.; building contractor) 506, 507, 520, 524–5, 526, 529, 537
Winters, Shelley 253, 821
Winwood, Estelle 494
Wittenberg, Henry 573
Wolders, Robert 271–2
Wolff, Dr. Maxwell 299, 353, 403, 405, 479, 499, 582, 600
Women in Love (film) 139
Wonner, Paul: Don Bachardy visits in Montecito 97, 99, 256; C.I. and Bachardy visit in Montecito 117, 211, 270, 271; art works 154, 424, 437, 621; and C.I.’s Kathleen and Frank 197; friendship and socializing with C.I. 247, 367–8, 424, 430; plans to move 247, 271; house in New Hampshire 271, 293, 300; moves to San Francisco 430, 437; Corcoran Gallery show 621; Bachardy’s views on 667; 821
Wood, Audrey 206
Wood, Christopher: friendship and socializing with C.I. 121, 142, 198–9, 261, 365, 491, 499, 504, 505, 506, 507, 508; and Gerald Heard 121, 142, 149, 159, 189, 198–9, 614; paintings 142; and Paul Sorel 142, 475, 478, 491, 578, 654–5; reads manuscript of Kathleen and Frank 142, 149; appearance 149, 261, 478; considers returning to England 189, 261, 365; and Michael Barrie 191; and Margaret Gage 198–9; and Peggy Kiskadden 261, 375, 475; recommends Chinese restaurant 313; on his trip to England 365; cancer 375, 385, 475, 478; suffers stroke 499; death 511; 821
Wood, Natalie 164–5, 412, 822
Woodcock, Patrick: and Peter Schlesinger 12; C.I. socializes with in London 19, 28, 46, 52, 55, 58, 69, 70, 77, 317, 335, 513, 514, 516; on death and dying 39, 55, 317, 527; and David Mann 46, 52; and proposed production of A Meeting by the River 55; and Stephen Spender 617, 618; 822
Woodfall Productions (film production company) 92
Woodstock (music festival) 1
Woody, Jack 566, 583, 618, 621, 631, 648, 675, 822
Woolf, Leonard 21, 117, 153
Woolf, Virginia x, 21, 25, 117, 153; Quentin Bell’s biography of 358; possible film treatment on early life of 395; diaries 558, 561–2
Jacob’s Room 279; Moments of Being 568; Mrs. Dalloway 579
Wordsworth, William 513; The Prelude 568
World in the Evening, The (C.I.) xxxv–xxxvi, 591, 592
World Trade Center, New York 173, 425–6
Worth, Irene 39–40
Worton, Len (later Swami Bhadrananda) 124, 155, 210, 250, 420, 445, 454, 822
Wotton Underwood, Buckinghamshire, England 514
Wright, Frank Lloyd 89
Wright, Thomas E. (Tom) 351, 365, 822–3
Writers Guild of America 85, 86; strikes (1973) 345–6, 347, 348, 349–50, 351, 353, 355, 358, 361, 364, 369, 372, 674, 823; (1981) 674
Wu Ch’eng-en, Monkey 267
Wudl, Tom 451, 457, 495, 823
Wyberslegh Hall, Cheshire, England 14, 52–3, 86, 331, 333–4, 341–2, 610, 823
Wyhergut, Switzerland 336, 337
Wyler, William 639
Yale, John see Prema Chaitanya
Yamash’ta, Stomu 329
Yeats, W.B. 321, 322, 435, 613, 671
Yogaprana 345n
Yogeshananda, Swami see Buddha Chaitanya
York, Michael: C.I.’s attraction to xii, 3, 101, 238, 255, 648; Something for Everyone 101; C.I. socializes with in California 238, 240, 244, 254–5, 492, 498, 501, 658; Don Bachardy’s drawings of 238, 254, 493; marriage 238, 425; Lost Horizon 244n; Cabaret 289; in New York 308; flat in London 312; Conduct Unbecoming 503; possible role in A Meeting by the River 557; 823–4
York, Pat see McCallum York, Pat
Yorty, Samuel William 299, 363
Yosemite National Park, California 366–7
Young, Allen, The Gay Report 592
Young, Perry Dean 507
Yount, Kurt 499, 584–5, 824
Yow, Jensen 170–71, 824
Yukoku (film) 169
Zabriskie Point (film) 24, 139
Zardoz (film) 227n, 415
Zimbalist, Stephanie Spaulding 395
Zindel, Paul, And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little 169
“Zodiac Killer” (serial killer) 115
Zürich, Switzerland 326, 336, 339
About the Author
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD (1904–1986) was one of the most celebrated writers of his generation. He left Cambridge without graduating, briefly studied medicine, and then turned to writing his first novels, All the Conspirators and The Memorial. Between 1929 and 1939 he lived mainly abroad, spending four years in Berlin and writing the novels Mr. Norris Changes Trains and Goodbye to Berlin, from which the musical Cabaret was based. He moved to America in 1939, becoming a US citizen in 1946, and wrote another five novels, including Down There on a Visit and A Single Man; a travel book about South America; and a biography of the Indian mystic Ramakrishna. In the late 1960s and ’70s he turned to autobiographical works: Kathleen and Frank; Christopher and His Kind; My Guru and His Disciple; and October, one month of his diary with drawings by Don Bachardy.
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Books by Christopher Isherwood
NOVELS
All the Conspirators
The Memorial
Mr. Norris Changes Trains
Goodbye to Berlin
Prater Violet
The World in the Evening
Down There on a Visit
A Single Man
A Meeting by the River
AUTOBIOGRAPHY & DIARIES
Lions and Shadows
Kathleen and Frank
Christopher and His Kind
My Guru and His Disciple
October (with Don Bachardy)
Diaries, Volume One: 1939–1960
The Sixties, Diaries, Volume Two: 1960–1969
Lost Years: A Memoir, 1945–1951
BIOGRAPHY
Ramakrishna and His Disciples
PLAYS (with W.H. Auden)
The Dog Beneath the Skin
The Ascent of F6
On the Frontier
TRAVEL
Journey to a War (with W.H. Auden)
The Condor and the Cows
COLLECTIONS
Exhumations
Where Joy Resides
Credits
Cover design by Archie Ferguson
Front cover photograph © Stephen Stewart
Copyright
LIBERATION. Copyright © 2012 by Don Bachardy. Introduction copyright © 2012 by Katherine Bucknell. Preface copyright © 2012 by Edmund White. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this ebook on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins ebooks.
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1 Oct. 16, 1976.
2 Aug. 7, 1977.
3 Thomas Mann, Foreword to The Magic Mountain (1924), trans. H.T. Lowe-Porter (1927).
4 Aug. 14, 1973.
5 Feb. 14, 1960 in Diaries, Volume One 1939–1960 (D.1).
6 Jan. 11, 1971.
7 Feb. 10, 1971.
8 Apr. 24, 1971.
9 June 3, 1971.
10 Aug. 24, 1971. Isherwood typed “Polidor” as in drafts of the screenplay, but eventually they settled on “Polidori.”
11 Conversation with me, Oct. 2006.
12 The color portraits filled 25" × 20" sheets; the smaller black and white drawings were actually on larger paper, 29" × 23".
13 Dec. 8, 1973.
14 Conversation, Oct. 2006.
15 Dec. 3, 1972.
16 May 13, 1971.
17 Aug. 26, 1972.
18 Dec. 25, 1973.
19 Conversation, 2007.
20 Oct. 5, 1975.
21 Feb. 7, 1978. See also July 12, 1972.
22 Jan. 7, 1965 in Christopher Isherwood, The Sixties, Diaries, Volume Two, 1960–1969 (D.2).
23 Conversation, Oct. 2006.
24 Conversation, Oct. 2006.
25 Dec. 8, 1972.
26 Apr. 7, 1975.
27 Sept. 30, 1973.
28 Chptr. 5.
29 Apr. 8, 1975.
30 Oct. 29, 1973.
31 Jul. 30, 1970.
32 Sept. 8, 1970.
33 Feb. 27, 1975.
34 See Ramakrishna in Glossary.
35 Dec. 1963, no day, p. 301, D.2.
36 My Guru and His Disciple, p. 260.
37 Dec. 23, 1976.
38 Dec. 23, 1976.
39 Last Drawings of Christopher Isherwood, p. xiv.
40 Last Drawings of Christopher Isherwood, p. xviii.
41 Nov. 6, 1973.
42 See Humphrey Carpenter, W.H. Auden: A Biography (1982), p. 242.
43 Auden travelled to Spain in 1936 and China in 1938 especially to observe the wars there, and he implied he might have returned to England for the same reason had he not fallen in love with and committed himself to Chester Kallman: “Trouble is attractive when one is not tied.” See his questions and answers enclosed in a letter to his friend E.R. Dodds, circa March 11, 1940, in W.H. Auden: “The Map of All My Youth”, edited by Katherine Bucknell and Nicholas Jenkins, p. 113.
44 Jun. 27, 1981.
45 Sept. 14, 1973.
46 Sept. 25, 1973.
47 May 15, 1961, D.2.
48 The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan, ed. John Lahr, April 14, 1977, pp. 369–370.
49 Lions and Shadows, chptr. 5.
50 Oct. 23, 1977.
51 Nov. 26, 1970.
52 Mar. 27, 1978.
53 For example, “. . . all the accounts agree that the Vision of Eros cannot long survive if the parties enter into an actual sexual relation.” Introduction to Anne Fremantle, The Protestant Mystics (1964), rpt. in Forewords and Afterwords (1974), p. 64.
54 Nov. 8, 1977.
55 May 27, 1979.
56 “Notes on ‘Camp,’” Partisan Review, vol. 31, no. 4, 1964, pp. 515–530; rpt. Against Interpretation (1966), p. 275.
57 Prt. 1, chptr. 3.
58 Aug. 8, 1976.
59 Sept. 15, 1980 and Sept. 25, 1980.
60 Jan. 1, 1983.
61 Apr. 19, 1981.
62 Oct. 16, 1981.
63 Apr. 11, 1982.
64 Oct. 23, 1982.
65 Jul. 4, 1983.
1 The Babymaker; see Glossary under Bridges.
2 (B. 1939), a regular on American and Canadian soap operas from the mid-1960s, including “As the World Turns” and “Another World.”
3 Often known by her maiden name, Collin Wilcox; see Glossary under Wilcox.
4 (B. 1948), a T.V. regular in the mid-1960s and later a movie star in The Right Stuff (1983), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), and The Portrait of a Lady (1996).
5 Scott Glenn (b. 1941) later had roles in Nashville (1975), Apocalpyse Now (1979), The Right Stuff (1983), Silverado (1985), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), and others.
6 Garson Kanin (1912–1999), American actor, writer, and director, described the friendship in Remembering Mr. Maugham (1966).
7 Isherwood’s adaptation of Bernard Shaw’s 1932 story, “The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God,” was staged at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, March 20–May 4. For more on this and the proposed musical of The Dog Beneath the Skin, see Glossary and Christopher Isherwood, The Sixties: Diaries Volume Two (1960–1969) (D.2.).
8 David Hockney, 72 Drawings: Chosen by the Artist (1971); Isherwood’s introduction was not used.
9 Isherwood and Bachardy travelled in the South Pacific and Australia, partly for the filming of Ned Kelly, July 20–August 13. See D.2.
10 Isherwood and Bachardy in their private, mythological identities; see Glossary.
11 For a proposed London production of Isherwood and Bachardy’s stage adaptation of A Meeting by the River.
12 Each had been deserted for a younger woman; see Glossary.
13 See Glossary for Hindu terms.
1 Isherwood handwrote this diary on the rectos of a bound notebook with additions, usually marked with asterisks, on facing versos. The additions are printed here as a separate run of footnotes, above my numbered notes. On the first verso, facing the start of the diary, he wrote:
From an article by Arthur Hopcraft on the Working Class in Britain (Observer supplement, February 22, 1970) which is headed “The Middle Class Get Psychotherapy and the Working Class Get Pills”:
A woman social worker who takes part in Salford’s psychiatric social service says: “You can’t deal with marital problems because there’s a housing problem; you can’t deal with that because there’s a wages problem; you can’t deal with that because there’s a health problem.”
2 Written with David Sherwin (1969).
3 An Impersonation of Angels (1968).
* No, says Norman Prouting, 102 years. This house was built in 1868. This whole area was built by some famous Australian cricketers. There is a pub round the corner called The Australian. Formerly, this land was marsh. [Isherwood was lodging with Prouting in Chelsea; see Glossary.]
4 A biography by Parker Tyler (1969).
* One of the boys at the Ramakrishna-Vedanta center, the English one, was told to take a photograph of Swami and me. He somehow got the camera jammed, being nervous. Buddha reproved him, addressing him as “brother,” and one saw the grim bright-eyed smiling martinet. Buddha, speaking of his “lapse,” said, “It’s been a long way back.” I think I pleased him by telling of the “lapses” of Franklin [Knight] and of [another monk he knew].