The answers to these questions remained private until after her death. It left the reader tantalized by a series of enigmas: Who was the writer’s husband, and what happened to him? Why didn’t she and Finch Hatton marry? Did she ever plan to return to Africa? What was her life now?
Her memoir was arresting in many ways, especially in its oblique references to the author’s love story with the English hunter Denys Finch Hatton. She was played by Meryl Streep in the 1985 film Out of Africa. In 1931, after losing the coffee farm in the Great Depression, Karen Blixen returned to Denmark and embarked on the writing career that lasted until her death in 1962. Following their separation and divorce, she had a long affair with the safari hunter, Denys Finch Hatton, son of a titled English family. She married her second cousin, Baron Bror Blixen of Sweden, thereby acquiring the title Baroness.
She wrote in English, after living on a coffee farm in Kenya from 1914 to 1931. She was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. A 2007 poll of opinion in her native Denmark lists Karen Blixen as one of the most representative personalities in Danish history. Karen Blixen (1885-1962), also known by her pseudonym, Isak Dinesen, is famous for her memoir, Out of Africa, and for several works of fiction, including Seven Gothic Tales (1934) and Winter’s Tales (1942).
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