name: Elspeth Huxley
birth_date: 1907-07-23 00:00:00
death_date: 1997-01-10 00:00:00
genres: Nonfiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction
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about: Elspeth Joscelin Huxley was an English writer, journalist, broadcaster, magistrate, environmentalist, farmer, and government adviser. She wrote over 40 books, including her best-known lyrical books, The Flame Trees of Thika and The Mottled Lizard, based on her youth in a coffee farm in British Kenya. Her husband,  Gervas Huxley, was a grandson of  Thomas Henry Huxley and a cousin of  Aldous Huxley. Elspeth Joscelin Huxley was an English writer, journalist, broadcaster, magistrate, environmentalist, farmer, and government adviser. She wrote over 40 books, including her best-known lyrical books, The Flame Trees of Thika and The Mottled Lizard, based on her youth in a coffee farm in British Kenya. Her husband,  Gervas Huxley, was a grandson of  Thomas Henry Huxley and a cousin of  Aldous Huxley. ...more