Don Bachardy was born in Los Angeles in 1934. His artwork, which parallels David Hockney s and anticipates Elizabeth Peyton s, is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the de Young Museum, San Francisco; the Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University; and the National Portrait Gallery, London, among others. "The" "Animals "is a book of love letters between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy. He lives in Santa Monica, California.