Isherwood moved on to California, and in July confided this to his diary: “I forced myself to write-a review of The Grapes of Wrath and a short story called “I Am Waiting”-but there was no satisfaction in it.” Despite his mood, Isherwood’s review of The Grapes of Wrath was upbeat and positive like the diaries, novels, and plays that he produced over five decades in America, his insights (and criticism) seem as fresh today as they were in 1939. Intimate friends since school days in England, Isherwood and Auden arrived in New York in January. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, the British author of Berlin Stories, wrote a review of The Grapes of Wrath for Kenyon Review, the new American literary magazine that-like John Steinbeck-quickly gained prestige and influence with readers and critics in the United States. Shortly after emigrating to America in 1939 with the poet W. Off to America: Christopher Isherwood and W.H.
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