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Denys George Finch-Hatton MC (24 April 1887 – 14 May 1931) was a British aristocratic big-game hunter and the lover of Baroness Karen Blixen (also known by her pen name, Isak Dinesen), a Danish noblewoman who wrote about him in her autobiographical book Out of Africa, first published in 1937.
Foremost among them is Denys Finch Hatton, who was for a time Blixen's lover after her separation and then her divorce from her husband. Finch Hatton, like Blixen herself, was known to feel close to his African acquaintances – as, indeed, do virtually all of the Europeans for whom Blixen expresses real regard in Out of Africa.
Denys Finch Hatton, around 1910–1920. On 5 April 1918, Bror and Karen were introduced at the Muthaiga Club to the English big game hunter Denys Finch Hatton (1887–1931). Soon afterwards he was assigned to military service in Egypt. By 1919, the marriage had run into difficulties, causing her husband to request a divorce in 1920.
Beryl Markham (born Clutterbuck; 26 October 1902 – 3 August 1986) was a Kenyan aviator born in England (one of the first bush pilots ), adventurer, racehorse trainer and author. She was the first person to fly solo, non-stop across the Atlantic from Britain to North America. She wrote about her adventures in her memoir, West with the Night .
Out of Africa is a 1985 American epic romantic drama film directed and produced by Sydney Pollack, and starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford.The film is based loosely on the 1937 autobiographical book Out of Africa written by Isak Dinesen (the pseudonym of Danish author Karen Blixen), with additional material from Dinesen's 1960 book Shadows on the Grass and other sources.
He was a charismatic figure amongst the early European settlers in Kenya and a close friend of Karen Blixen who later featured him and their mutual friend Denys Finch Hatton in her memoir Out of Africa. He was notable as the founder of the Muthaiga Club, a private Nairobi enclave of the colony's demi-monde. Death
Lady Elizabeth Murray was the great-grandmother of Denys Finch-Hatton, known as a lover of Danish author Karen von Blixen who wrote "Out of Africa". In the movie, Denys was played by Robert Redford and Blixen by Meryl Streep.
Blixen (left) with Edward, Prince of Wales and Denys Finch Hatton (right), 1928. Baron Bror Fredrik von Blixen-Finecke (25 July 1886 – 4 March 1946) was a Swedish nobleman, writer, and African professional hunter and guide on big-game hunts. He was married to Karen Blixen (née Dinesen) from 1914 to 1925.
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