Author. She was a Danish author, who wrote the popular short story collections "Seven Gothic Tales" in 1934 and "Winter's Tales" in 1942, and in 1937 the autobiographical "Out of Africa," which was the story of her life on a coffee plantation in colonial Kenya. This book was loosely adapted to Sydney Pollack's 1985 film, "Out of Africa". The film received seven Academy Awards out of eleven nominations and was a box-office success in the United States as well as Europe. Born the second of five children of wealthy conservative Danish parents, she was educated privately and at the Academy of Fine Arts. Around 1905 she began to publish short stories in Danish periodicals under the pseudonym of Osceola. She published her books in English before they were released in Danish. In 1913 she and her fiancé, who was a second cousin, Swedish Baron Bror von Blixen, planned to relocate to Kenya, which was part of British East Africa. Following the Baron traveling to Africa months earlier to make arrangements, the couple married in a simple ceremony upon her arrival on January 14, 1914. She became Baroness Blixen. The couple became part of the elite European society as her husband had the title of Baron and connections to the highest nobility in Sweden, while her family had the wealth. After acquiring small amounts of acreage over a period of time, the couple ultimately managed a 4,500-acre coffee plantation with 800 native Kikuyu laborers in Colonial Kenya. During World War I, her nationality generated suspicions of being a pro-German sympathizer among the British settlers. She and her husband enjoyed the sport of Big-Game hunting. By 1922, she and her husband had separated and were divorced by 1925. Since her parents had financed the plantation, she was left to manage it. She never remarried nor had children. She and her long-time companion Finch Hatton, a British aristocrat, managed Big-Game safaris from the plantation until Finch was killed in a bi-plane crash in May of 1931. For 10 years, she had worked the plantation until mismanagement, drought, and the falling price of coffee from a world-wide economic depression forced her return Denmark in August of 1931. In hindsight, the plantation was located too far north and the elevation was too high to produce the best coffee crop. In 1944 under the pseudonym Pierre Andrézel, she authored her only novel "Gengældelsens veje" or "The Angelic Avengers," which some critics claiming that the novel was a clever satire of Nazi-occupied Denmark during World War II. Shortly before her death, she published a collection of short stories, "Anecdotes of Destiny." Two stories from this collection were adapted to film: "The Immortal Story" in 1968 and "Babette's Feast" as a Danish film in 1987. This collection of short stories was re-published in 1993. During her literary career, she received numerous accolades. According to the Nobel archived nominations, she was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950, in 1956 with three different nominations, twice in 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, twice in 1961, and 1962, yet never received one. The nominations were made under her actual name instead of any of her pseudonyms. Even though she gained more fame after the 1985 film, "Out of Africa," the fame did not impact her ability to earn the coveted Nobel Prize as it is not awarded posthumously. Diagnosed with a host of medical problems, she died of malnutrition. Her death is said to be related to the toxic effects of mercury and arsenic that she was given early in her marriage for the treatment of syphilis. In the 21st century, there is doubt that she actually had syphilis. Her image is on a Danish 50 Kroner money note and has been on a Danish stamp twice.