<div><div><b></b>&nbsp;</div><div><b>Winner of the National Book Award</b><br>&nbsp;<br>A brilliant literary portrait, <i>Isak Dinesen</i> remains the only comprehensive biography of one of the greatest storytellers of our time. Her magnificent memoir, <i>Out of Africa,</i> established Isak Dinesen as a major twentieth-century author, who was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize.<br>&nbsp;<br>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.</div></div>