The Sixties: Diaries 1960-1969

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A landmark work of twentieth-century autobiographical writing, The Sixties: Diaries 1960–1969 presents the intimate and unfiltered private journals of one of Britain's most celebrated literary figures, Christopher Isherwood, spanning one of the most turbulent decades in modern history. Edited and introduced by Katherine Bucknell, and with a foreword by Christopher Hitchens, this meticulously curated volume chronicles Isherwood's daily life in California — his relationship with artist Don Bachardy, his Hollywood connections, his deep engagement with Vedanta philosophy, and his evolving identity as an openly gay man in mid-century America. Written with candour, wit, and sharp literary intelligence, the diaries illuminate the cultural and political upheavals of the 1960s through the lens of a keenly observant outsider who had reinvented himself on the West Coast. Isherwood's prose is at once self-critical and warmly humane, offering readers an extraordinary window into both a singular creative life and the broader social revolutions of his era. This is the second volume in the celebrated diary series, following The Forties, and stands as an indispensable document for anyone drawn to literary memoir, queer history, or the counterculture of the 1960s.