num_pages: 495
description: Winner of the 1983 National Book Award and the 1983 American 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.
language: English
title: Isak Dinesen - The Life Of A Storyteller
titlecomplete: Isak Dinesen - The Life Of A Storyteller
genres: Biography, History, Danish, Africa, Womens, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, Denmark, Kenya, Books About Books
ratings_count: 1234
awards: awardedAt: 410256000000
name: National Book Award
category: Autobiography/Biography (Hardcover)
publisher: St. Martin's Press