orig. Christopher William Bradshaw
born Aug. 26, 1904, High Lane, Cheshire, Eng.
died Jan. 4, 1986, Santa Monica, Calif., U.S.
British-born U.S. writer.
Educated at Cambridge University, he became close friends with The Ascent of F6 (1936). He lived in Berlin from 1929 to 1933; his two novels about this period, later published together as The Berlin Stories (1946), inspired the play I Am a Camera (1951; film, 1955) and the musical Cabaret (1966; film, 1972). A pacifist, he moved to southern California at the beginning of World War II, where he taught and wrote screenplays. His later fiction and memoirs reflect his homosexuality. A follower of Swami Prabhavananda, he wrote and translated works on Indian {{link=Vedanta">Vedanta .