Out of Isak Dinesen in Africa: Karen Blixen's Untold Story

Karen Blixen, the Danish writer who published under the name Isak Dinesen, is best remembered for the years she spent running a coffee farm in Kenya and for the memoir that came out of them. This biography looks beyond that book and the famous film based on it. It follows her life in Africa, including her marriage, her farm and the people who shaped her years there, and considers how the colonial world around her fed into her writing. The aim is to tell the story that the more romanticised accounts left out.