Full name: Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller

Author: Judith Thurman Year: 1982 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies Cultures: Africa, Kenya Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon Google Books LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780312135256 0312135254

Winner of the National Book Award A brilliant literary portrait, Isak Dinesen remains the only comprehensive biography of one of the greatest storytellers of our time. Her magnificent memoir, Out of Africa, established Isak Dinesen as a major twentieth-century author, who was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize. With exceptional grace, Judith Thurman's classic work explores Dinesen's life. 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. Similar books: Savage Art by Robert Polito The World Is What It Is by Patrick French A Lot to Ask by Hazel Holt The Life of Raymond Chandler by Frank MacShane A Tragic Honesty by Blake Bailey Simenon by Pierre Assouline Soldier by Karen DeYoung Anais by Noel Riley Fitch Howard Hughes by Donald L. Barlett Cheever by Blake Bailey Nancy Reagan by Kitty Kelley Anne Morrow Lindbergh by Susan Hertog Like a Fiery Elephant by Jonathan Coe Tove Jansson by Tuula Karjalainen Simone de Beauvoir by Deirdre Bair Bonhoeffer by Eric Metaxas Like the Roman by Simon Heffer Memoirs by Pablo Neruda Unbreak My Heart by Toni Braxton