Isak Dinesen The Life of Karen Blixen Author:Judith Thurman With exceptional grace, Judith Thurman 's classic work explores Dinesen's life--her privileged but unhappy childhood in Denmark, her marriage to Baron Blixen, their immigration to Africa on the eve of World War I, and her passionate affair with Denys Finch Hatton. — Until the appearance of this book, the life and art of Isak Dinesen have ... more »been--as Dinesen herself wrote of two lovers in a tale--"a pair of locked caskets, each containing the key to the other." Judith Thurman has provided the master key to them both.« less
Isak Dinesen was the author beloved by the English-speaking world; Karen Blixen was the woman struggling with a farm in Africa and the syphilis left by her husband, the Baron.