Karen Blixen

Karen Blixen (1885-1962) was born and died in Rungsted, Denmark. She studied painting in Copenhagen, Paris, and Rome. In 1914, she went to Kenya to manage a coffee plantation until 1931, when a market crisis forced her to return to Denmark. A few years later, she began writing and publishing her major works, often under the male pen name Isak Dinesen, with simultaneous English and Danish editions: "Seven Gothic Tales," 1934, "Out of Africa," 1937, "Winter's Tales," 1942, "The Angelic Avengers," 1944, "Last Tales," 1957, "Anecdotes of Destiny," 1958, "Shadows on the Grass," 1960, "Ehrengard," 1963, and other stories included in the posthumous collection "Carnival," 1977.