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Authors: Christopher Isherwood

Worsley, Cuthbert, 115n, 146

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 157, 160â1n, 165

Wright, Teresa, 205, 228

Wyberslegh Hall, Cheshire (England): C.I. visits (1947), 87â8, 90n, 111â12; C.I. revisits (1948), 143â4, 147, 185n

Yeats, William Butler: “Parnell's Funeral”, 84 & [n]; “Solomon and the Witch”, 106 & [n]

Yogi (Walter Brown), 33

Yogini (Mrs. Walter Brown), 33

Yorke, Adelaide (“Dig”), 143

Yorke, Henry (“Henry Green”), 83n, 143;
Back
, 140n;
Doting
, 275n;
Living
, 275n;
Loving
, 275n;
Nothing
, 275n

Zeiler, Dr., 35â6

Zeininger, Russ, 208, 212n, 220, 229, 230, 258

Zinnemann, Fred, 174, 205, 219, 223n, 228, 230

Zinnemann, RenÃ©e, 219, 230

Acknowledgements

I could not have prepared this book without the constant support and collaboration of Don Bachardy. Isherwood's luck in finding such a partner continues to grow more evident, and I feel privileged to share some of that luck.

Many friends of Isherwood have taken a great deal of trouble to answer questions for Don Bachardy and for me, and we are extremely grateful for their tenacity and their forthrightness: George Bemberg, Walter Berns, Stefan Brecht, the late Paul Cadmus, the late Jim Charlton, Robert Craft, Jack Fontan, John Gruber, Michael Hall, Betty Harford, the late Evelyn Hooker, Richard Keate, Robert Kittredge, Gavin Lambert, Jack Larson, the late JosÃ© Martinez, the late Ben Masselink, Carlos McClendon, the late Roddy McDowall, Ivan Moffat, Alvin Novak, Fern Maher O'Brien, “Vernon Old,” Bernard Perlin, Rupert Pole, Ned Rorem, Paul Sorel, Walter Starcke, Barry Taxman, Curtice Taylor, the late Frank Taylor, Edward Upward, Gore Vidal, Swami Vidyatmananda, Tom Wright, Russ Zeininger.

A number of other people have helped with challenging and sometimes eccentric queries as well as practical matters, and I thank them all: Terry Adamson, Robert Adjemian, Peter Alexander, Alan Ansen, John Appleton, Roger Berthoud, Michael Bessie, Vernon Brooks, Sally Brown (Curator of Modern Literary Manuscripts at the British Library), Peter Burton, Sheilah Cherney, Patricia Clark (The British Council), Gerald Clarke, Michael De Lisio, John D'Emilio, RenÃ©e Doolley, Philippa Foote, Christopher Gibb, Joyce Howard, Don Howarth, Nicholas Jenkins, Brian Keelan, Jim Kelly, Judy Kopec (Johns Hopkins University), Fredric Kroll, Tanya Kutchinsky, the late Lyle Leverich, Glenn Lewis, Lloyd Lewis, John Loughery, Jeffrey Meyers, Jean Morin (Directorate of History and Heritage, Ottawa, Canada), Karl MÃ¼ller, Ed Parone, Susan Peck, Stuart Proffitt, Andreas Reyneke, Dean Rocco, Jennifer Ruggiero, David Salmo, Suzelle Smith, Willie Walker, Robert Weil, George Wilson (Johns Hopkins University).

For permission to quote part of a letter from Dodie Smith Beesley to Isherwood, I would like to thank Julian Barnes; for permission to quote from E. M. Forster's letters to Isherwood, I would like to thank the Society of Authors as agent for the Provost and Scholars of King's College, Cambridge; for permission to quote part of a letter from John Goodwin to Isherwood, I would like to thank Anthony Russo.

A project like this one is not easy without the continual and thoughtful involvement of editors, agents, and nowadays even lawyers; I am grateful, for each of their efforts, to Helena Caldon, Roger Cazalet, Caroline Dawnay, Jim Fox, Daniel Halpern, Douglas Matthews, Anthea Morton-Saner, Harvey Starte, Stuart Williams and especially Howard Davies, Michael di Capua, Alison Samuel, and Geoffrey Strachan.

To friends who spent more time than they should have spent chasing will-o'-the-wisp details, I am, as ever, very much in debt: Thomas Braun, Axel Neubohn, Peter Parker, Polly Maguire Robison, Margaret Bradham Thornton. I came to depend especially on Christopher Phipps, who is as cheerful as he is meticulous; his resourcefulness has contributed many things to this book. Lucy Bucknell and Edward Mendelson have loyally helped me with small questions and big problems, and above all by readingâwith characteristic generosity and strictnessâanything I asked them to.

At home I have had unconditional support from Jackie Edgar, Vivian Galang, and Michelle Hatfield, and from a merry and inquisitive little gang who worked hard not to disturb me at my desk: Bob Maguire, Bobby Maguire, Lucy Maguire, Jack Maguire. I could not do without them.

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