Who wrote the novel where Ross inspired a character?
Ernest Hemingway
Christopher Isherwood
Tom Wolfe
Oscar Wilde
Answer
Christopher Isherwood wrote the novel "Goodbye to Berlin", in which Ross inspired a character named Sally Bowles. The novel is based on Isherwood's own experiences in Berlin in the 1930s, and it tells the story of a group of expatriate artists and intellectuals who live in the city during the rise of Nazism. Bowles is a young Englishwoman who is struggling to find her place in the world.
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