journal. In Lost Years, Isherwood often uses the term “journal” for his earlier diaries which have been published in Christopher Isherwood, Diaries Volume One 1939– 1960, ed. Katherine Bucknell (London: Methuen, 1996; New York: HarperCollins, 1997). Editorial notes refer to this published volume of diaries by the abbreviation D 1.
Kallman, Chester (1921–1975) . American poet and librettist; companion and collaborator to W. H. Auden. He also appears in D 1. Auden met Kallman in New York in May 1939, and they lived together intermittently in New York, Ischia, and Kirchstetten for the rest of Auden’s life, though Kallman spent a great deal of his time with other friends, often in Athens as he grew older. Kallman published three volumes of poetry and with Auden wrote and translated a number of opera libretti, notably The Rake’s Progress (for Stravinsky), Elegy for Young Lovers and The Bassarids (both for Hans Werner Henze).
Kazan, Elia (b. 1909) . American stage and film director, born in Con-stantinople to Greek parents. He studied at Yale and began his career as an actor on Broadway and in Hollywood. Among the plays he directed are Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth (1942); Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman (1949); and Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955), and Sweet Bird of Youth (1959). Kazan brought his production of A Streetcar Named Desire to the screen, and he made a number of other celebrated films, including Gentleman’s Agreement (1947, Academy Award), East of Eden (1954), and On the Waterfront (1954, Academy Award). He was a founder in 1947 of The Actors Studio, famous for Method acting. In 1962 he moved from The Actors Studio to The Lincoln Center Repertory Company, then turned to writing fiction and eventually his own autobiography, Elia Kazan: A Life (1988). He also appears in D 1.
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Keate, Richard (Dick) (b. 1922) . American pilot and furniture designer.
Keate flew B-17s for the air force during World War II and afterwards became a flying instructor in northern California. From there he often visited Santa Monica Canyon and sometimes took trips with Isherwood and Carlos McClendon to Johnny Goodwin’s ranch and to the bullfights in Tijuana. In the late 1940s he was a pilot for Air Services of India (now Air India) and lived in India. When he returned to California, he attended the American School of Dance on the GI Bill and worked as a dancer. In 1956 he moved to New York, planning to take up acting, but instead studied Flamenco guitar; his studies took him to Spain where he became interested in furniture, and he began to import Spanish furniture to New York and then to design and manufacture his own furniture. He opened a shop, Casa Castellana, in Greenwich Village in 1964
and was successful for many years.
Kelley. Howard Kelley; see Index and see also D 1.
Kennedy, Bill. American editor, magazine publisher, and radio host.
Kennedy lived in New York, but Isherwood first met him in January 1949 at Salka Viertel’s house. During the 1940s, Kennedy helped the medium Eileen Garrett to relaunch her psychic magazine Tomorrow as a literary publication, and he later persuaded Isherwood to write regular reviews for it. He also cohosted a radio show, “The World in Books,” with a friend Vernon Brooks; both Isherwood and W. H. Auden were guests on the show.
Kennedy, Ludovic (b. 1919)
. Scottish-born writer and broadcaster;
educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. He served in the British navy during World War II and worked as a librarian and a lecturer before joining the BBC, where he presented television news and public affairs programs. He was a newscaster for ITN in the mid-1950s. His later television shows also focused on criminal and legal topics, especially miscarriages of justice, and he published books on similar matters. In the late 1950s he ran for Parliament. As Isherwood mentions, he is married to Moira Shearer.
Kennington, Eric (1888–1960) . English painter and, later, sculptor.
Kennington was born in London, studied at the Lambeth School of Art, and was an official war artist during both world wars. He is best known for his illustrations of T. E. Lawrence’s The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1926). The illustration Isherwood saw at Forster’s flat, of Mahmas, a camel driver, appears in book 7, chapter 87.
Kirstein, Lincoln (1907–1996) . American dance impresario, author, editor, and philanthropist. Isherwood’s first meeting with Kirstein in New York in 1939 was suggested by Stephen Spender who had already befriended Kirstein in London. Kirstein was raised in Boston, the son of a wealthy self-made businessman. He was educated at Berkshire, Exeter, and Harvard where he was founding editor of Hound and Horn, the quarterly magazine on dance, art, and literature. He also painted and helped establish the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art. In 1933 Kirstein persuaded the Russian choreographer George Balanchine to come to New York, and together they founded the School of American Ballet and the New York City Ballet. Kirstein was also involved in starting the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and in other 326
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similar projects. His taste and critical judgement combined with his entrée into wealthy society enabled him to promote some of the great artistic talent of the twentieth century. In 1941 he married Fidelma Cadmus (Fido), sister of the painter Paul Cadmus. He served in the army from 1943 to 1946. Isherwood often tells about Kirstein in D 1. Don Bachardy blames himself as well as Kirstein for the end of this friendship. Trouble arose between Kirstein and Bachardy in 1966 when Kirstein, without consulting Balanchine, commissioned Bachardy to do portraits of the New York City Ballet stars; Balanchine did not approve of some of the portraits, and the whole project was withdrawn. Kirstein thereafter refused to see Isherwood again, even though W. H. Auden tried to bring about a reconciliation.
Kiskadden, Peggy. Thrice-married American socialite from Ardmore, Pennsylvania; born Margaret Adams Plummer, she was exceptionally pretty and had an attractive singing voice. From 1924 until 1933, she was married to a lawyer and (later) judge, Curtis Bok, the eldest son of one of Philadelphia’s most prominent families. In the early 1930s she accompanied Bok, a Quaker, to Dartington, England, where she first met Gerald Heard and Aldous and Maria Huxley. Her second marriage, to Henwar Rodakiewicz, a documentary filmmaker, ended in 1942, and she married Bill Kiskadden in July 1943. She had four children, Margaret Welmoet Bok (called Tis), Benjamin Plummer Bok, Derek Curtis Bok (later President of Harvard University), and William Elliott Kiskadden, Jr. (nicknamed “Bull”). Isherwood was introduced to her by Gerald Heard soon after arriving in Los Angeles; they became intimate friends but drew apart at the end of the 1940s and finally split irrevocably in the 1950s over Isherwood’s relationship with Don Bachardy. There are numerous passages about her and her family in D 1.
Kiskadden, William Sherrill (Bill) (1894–1969) . American plastic surgeon; third husband of Peggy Kiskadden. Kiskadden was born in Denver, Colorado, the son of a businessman. He studied medicine at the University of California and in London and Vienna in the late 1920s and eventually established his practice in Los Angeles. He was the first clinical professor of plastic surgery at UCLA and founded the plastic surgical service at UCLA County Medical Center in the early 1930s, as well as holding distinguished positions at hospitals in Los Angeles––teaching, administering, and practicing––and writing articles on particular procedures and problems. Kiskadden became interested in the population problem and with Julian and Aldous Huxley and others founded Population Limited in the early 1950s. He served in both world wars, the second time in the Army Medical Corps.
Knight, Franklin. Vedanta monk living at Trabuco monastery from 1955