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line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:" alt="">Out
of Africa is Isak Dinesen^s memoir of her years in Africa, from 1914 to 1931,
on a four-thousand-acre coffee plantation in the hills near Nairobi. She had
come to Kenya from Denmark with her husband, and when they separated she stayed
on to manage the farm by herself, visited frequently by her lover, the big-game
hunter Denys Finch-Hatton, for whom she would make up stories "like
Scheherazade." In Africa, "I learned how to tell tales," she
recalled many years later. "The natives have an ear still. I told stories
constantly to them, all kinds." Her account of her African adventures,
written after she had lost her beloved farm and returned to Denmark, is that of
a master storyteller, a woman whom John Updike called "one of the most
picturesque and flamboyant literary personalities of the century."</span></p>

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the Author</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:" alt=""></span></p>

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line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:" alt="">Baroness
Karen von Blixen-Finecke (17 April 1885 – 7 September 1962), born Karen
Christentze Dinesen, was a Danish author, also known by the pen name Isak
Dinesen, who wrote works in Danish, French and English. She also at times used
the pen names Tania Blixen, Osceola, and Pierre Andrézel.<br>
Blixen is best known for Out of Africa, an account of her life while living in
Kenya, and for one of her stories, Babette^s Feast, both of which have been
adapted into Academy Award-winning motion pictures. She is also noted for her
Seven Gothic Tales, particularly in Denmark.</span></p>



