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  Although Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) and Beryl Markham -- who likely were both involved with British adventurer Denys Finch Hatton, without however entirely being able to claim him for themselves -- undoubtedly knew each other well and moved in the same narrow colonial circle, they do not even once mention each other's names in their respective memoirs of their lives in Kenya, Out of Africa and West with the Night. see if you know the answer
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  Who was so impressed with Beryl Markham's memoir West with the Night that he commented "She can write rings around all of us?" see if you know the answer
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  Beryl Markham was ... see if you know the answer
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  What later came to cloud the acclaim of Beryl Markham's memoir West with the Night?

(Note: It's an issue which is in dispute even among Markham's own biographers, and which may never be resolved entirely.) 		see if you know the answer
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  In the movie based on Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)'s memoir Out of Africa, Karen has a rival for the attentions of Denys Finch Hatton named Felicity, whose character is closely based on that of writer and pioneer aviator ... see if you know the answer
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  Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)'s husband Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke was also a friend and sometime hunting companion of ... see if you know the answer
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