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Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller

Judith Thurman

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#446 of 3,809 books · #203 in Biography & Memoir

Won the National Book Award for Nonfiction (1983).

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. 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. This biography won the National Book Award.

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Publisher
Picador
ISBN-13
9781250857101
Topics
Isak Dinesen's lifeLiterary biographyTwentieth-century authorship

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