TY - BOOK AU - Thurman,Judith TI - Isak Dinesen: the life of a storyteller SN - 0312135254 (pbk.) AV - PT8175.B545 Z84 1995 PY - 1995///] CY - New York PB - Picador KW - Dinesen, Isak, KW - Authors, Danish KW - 20th century KW - Biography N1 - Reprint. Originally published: St. Martin's Press, ©1982; Includes bibliographical references (pages 43-476) and index N2 - Judith Thurman 's classic work explores Dinesen's life - her privileged but unhappy childhood in Denmark, her marriage to Baron Blixen, their immigration to Africa on the eve of World War I, and her passionate affair with Denys Finch Hatton. 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." ER -