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Author Isak Dinesen's real name is?
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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 ...
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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.
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Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)'s husband Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke was also a friend and sometime hunting companion of ...
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In her memoir Out of Africa, Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) recounts, inter alia, her ultimately unsuccessful attempts to grow which kind of crop?
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Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) was what nationality?
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What writer (and which of his/her famous works) inspired the story "Journey into a Dark Heart" in Peter Høeg's Tales of the Night?
(Note: The story deals with a train ride in what was formerly the Belgian Congo. The author him-/herself appears as a character in the story.)
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Who is Gloria Vanderbilt's memoir, It Seemed Important at the Time: A Romance Memoir, dedicated to?
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