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unusual facts about Isak Dinesen



Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Other writers that corresponded with Canfield Fisher included Henry Seidel Canby, Richard Wright, Heywood Broun, Witter Bynner, Isak Dinesen, and Robert Frost.


see also

Dinesen

Thomas Dinesen (1892–1970), Danish recipient of the Victoria Cross; brother of Isak Dinesen

Kenyan literature

The best-known of these include Isak Dinesen (the pen name of Karen Blixen), whose Out of Africa was the basis for the popular film starring Meryl Streep; Elspeth Huxley, author of The Flame Trees of Thika; Margorie Oludhe Macgoye, whose Coming to Birth won the Sinclair Prize; and Beryl Markham, author of West with the Night.