Biography of Isak Dinesen

Out of Africa is a memoir by the Danish author Karen Blixen, who wrote under the pen name Isak Dinesen. Set in colonial Kenya from 1914 to 1931, the book chronicles the seventeen years Blixen spent managing a coffee plantation in the Ngong Hills...

Isak Dinesen is a pen name of Baroness Karen Christenze von Blixen-Finecke, a Danish author who published under several other pseudonyms over the course of her career. Dinesen was multilingual and translated most of her own works--she wrote ...