The Isherwood-Bachardy Lectures
“In Isherwood's Footsteps: Seeing the World in the Round”
Pico Iyer, novelist and travel writer, will deliver his Isherwood-Bachardy Lecture at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, on Thursday April 25, 2024 at 7.30pm. Book free tickets here.
Pico Iyer (Photo: Brigitte Lacombe)
Iyer’s many books include the bestsellers The Art of Stillness, Video Night in Kathmandu and The Open Road. He has also written introductions to more than 80 other books, including the Vintage edition of Isherwood’s The Condor and the Cows. His four online TED talks have garnered over eleven million views and counting.
In 2021, the Huntington acquired Iyer’s archive. “The fact that The Huntington contains the archive of Christopher Isherwood, whom I knew a little,” he said, “as well as of Evelyn Waugh, and the fact that it has such a rich holding of Henry David Thoreau, my lifelong guide and role model, together consolidate my sense that this is the perfect home for all that lies close to my heart.”
The Isherwood-Bachardy Lectures at the Huntington Library allow distinguished academics, writers and artists to initiate new discussion inspired by the personal and artistic achievements of life companions Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy.
Past Isherwood-Bachardy Lecturers include Tom Ford, Edmund White, and Armistead Maupin.