Isak Dinesen
The Life of a Storyteller
ISBN10: 1250857090
ISBN13: 9781250857095
Trade Paperback
528 Pages
$21.00
CA$28.00
A brilliant literary portrait, Isak Dinesen remains the only comprehensive biography of one of the greatest storytellers of our time. Dinesen’s magnificent memoir, Out of Africa, established her as a major twentieth-century author, who was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize.
With exceptional grace, Judith Thurman’s classic work explores Dinesen’s life. Until the appearance of this book, the life and art of Isak Dinesen have 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.
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Introduction
SHE WAS BORN Dinesen on April 17, 1885, and christened Karen Christentze. Her family called her “Tanne,” which was her own mispronunciation of Karen and a nickname—forever diminutive—that she disliked. She subsequently...