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.
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.
