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Isak Dinesen - Life Stories, Books, and Links
 
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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
 
Picture of Isak Dinesen, author of Out of Africa (also Karen Blixen-Finecke); twentieth century Danish Literature
Karen Blixen-Finecke (Isak Dinesen) on safari in Africa, 1918.
Isak Dinesen   (1885 - 1962)
 
Category:  Danish Literature
 
Born:  April 17, 1885
Rungsted, Denmark
 
Died:  September 7, 1962
Rungstedlund, Denmark
 
Related authors:
Elspeth Huxley
 
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Isak Dinesen - LIFE STORIES
  
 
2/5/1959     Blixen, McCullers, Marilyn Monroe
On this day in 1959, Carson McCullers hosted a small luncheon party in order that seventy-four-year-old Baroness Karen Blixen-Finecke (Isak Dinesen) could meet Marilyn Monroe. By all accounts, the three women hit it off wonderfully -- though Arthur Miller says the legend of them dancing together on the marble-topped dinner table is an exaggeration.
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SELECTED WORKS BY THIS AUTHOR
  
 
Carnival: Entertainments and Posthumous Tales
anthology
 
Letters from Africa 1914-1931
by Isak Dinesen, Frans Lasson (Editor)
letters
 
Out of Africa
memoirs
 
 
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SELECTED BOOKS ABOUT (or related to) THIS AUTHOR
  
 
Isak Dinesen the Life of Karen Blixen
by Judith Thurman
biography
 
Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller
by Judith Thurman
biography
 
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Isak Dinesen in America
Biography of Dinesen which examines her self-reinvention as a writer, struggle to find a publisher, eventual success with Seven Gothic Tales and Out of Africa, and the importance of her American and Canadian ties to her transformation.
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February 4, 2012
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