Meryl Streep is at the top of Hollywood's A-list. Since her stage debut in the 1970s, she has been lauded for her profound ...

Susan Gubar explains why she chose to write about women who entered a new creative phase as they aged in her new book, ‘Grand ...

In Seven Gothic Tales (1934), Dinesen confronts some of the most unsettling aspect of sexual guilt and desire with psychological astuteness. Adam and Marina discuss the ways in which, in both works, ...

In “It Ain’t Shakespeare,” the clue read, “Denmark is the setting for many of the stories in her 1942 book Winter’s Tales. ” “No clue,” Jones answered. He dropped down to $2,000 ...

Isak Dinesen—a pen name for Danish author Karen Blixen—recounts life in British East Africa, just after World War II. While ...

A thought for the day: "The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea." -- Danish author Karen Blixen, who wrote under the name Isak Dinesen. Latest Headlines.

First Lines in Historical Fiction Books That Instantly Transport You to the Past (Image Credit: Instagram) ... – Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen (1937) With just a single sentence, readers are ...

SHADOWS IN THE GRASS (149 pp.)—Isak Dlnesen—Random House ($3.75). A long time ago, in Africa, Isak Dinesen saw two lions attack an ox. Unarmed but for a stock whip, she flew at the kings of ...

Out of Isak Dinesen in Africa: The Untold Story Linda Donelson. Coulsong List, $16.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-9643893-1-1 ...

The other is Karen Blixen, better known as Isak Dinesen, author of Out of Africa, who was no stranger to living and breathing lions. Two great felines, carved from stone by Bertel Thorvaldsen, ...

Holden Caulfield, the sixteen-year-old protagonist of J. D. Salinger’s first novel, “The Catcher in the Rye,” which has been published by Little, Brown and chosen by the Book-of-the-Month ...