Izzo, David Garrett (2001). Christopher Isherwood: His Era, His Gang, and the Legacy of the Truly Strong Man. Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-57003-403-9.

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Jean Ross, a cabaret singer in the Weimar Republic, served as the primary basis for Isherwood's character. [16]Mizejewski, Linda (1992). Divine Decadence: Fascism, Female Spectacle, and the Makings of Sally Bowles. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-07896-3– via Internet Archive. ed. thus pictorial boards Very Good small octavo 317pp., colour & b/w plates, text ills., maps, appends., bibliog., index, Classic novel of Weimar Berlin. Interesting wartime issue. Boards rubbed o/w a very good copy. Isherwood 1998, p.45: "This job at the Lady Windermere only lasts another week. I got it through a man I met at the Eden Bar. But he's gone off to Vienna now. I must ring up the Ufa people again, I suppose. And then there's an awful old Jew who takes me out sometimes. He's always promising to get me a contract; but he only wants to sleep with me, the old swine."

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Van Druten, John (1983). I Am a Camera: A Play in Three Acts. United Kingdom: Dramatists Play Service. ISBN 978-0-8222-0545-6– via Internet Archive.

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The events depicted in The Berlin Stories are derived from Isherwood's colorful escapades in the Weimar Republic. [7] [8] In 1929, Isherwood moved to Weimar Berlin during the twilight of the Golden Twenties. At the time, Isherwood was an apprentice novelist who was politically indifferent [a] about the rise of fascism in Germany. [11] [12] He had relocated to Berlin to pursue a hedonistic life as an openly gay man and to enjoy the city's orgiastic Jazz Age cabarets. [13] [14] He socialized with a blithe coterie of gay writers that included Stephen Spender, Paul Bowles, [b] and W.H. Auden. [17] Spender, Stephen (28 November 1993). "Come to the Cabaret". The Observer (Sundayed.). London, United Kingdom. p.74. Isherwood, Christopher (2008) [1945]. The Berlin Stories. New York City: New Directions. ISBN 978-0-8112-0070-7– via Google Books. Bailey, Hilary (2012) [1998]. After the Cabaret. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-4482-0942-2– via Google Books. Allen 2004: "The real Isherwood... [was] the least political of the so-called Auden group, [and] Isherwood was always guided by his personal motivations rather than by abstract ideas."