Anglo-American author, Christopher William
Bradshaw-Isherwood was born in Cheshire, England, in August, 1904, to Kathleen
Machell-Smith and Frank Bradshaw-Isherwood. Frank Isherwood was in the British
military and was required to move his family several times, much to Kathleen's
displeasure. She sent Christopher to St. Edmund's boarding school for a proper education
in 1914. There he met W. H. Auden, who was to become a life-long friend and
co-author of several books and plays. The death of Isherwood's father on May 8,
1915, during a battle in France deeply affected him, not only in his
perspective of his father and how he would relate to his mother, but in his
attitude towards the military and war itself.
