![]() ![]() ![]() To this we must add her only novel, The Angelic Avengers, but this work, which she likes to call her “illegitimate child,”was composed in such a mood of amateur fun that she casually dictated it to a secretary, improvising chapter by chapter as she went along, at a time when her fortunes were at a low ebb and when she wanted to seek relief from the grim monotony of the German occupation of Denmark. In a half century of creative life, she has written four books of stories and a book of reminiscences about Africa, an average of one book per decade. ![]() Here is someone who never went to college, never took a course in creative writing, and who has never felt the professional urge to spawn books as Detroit manufacturers mass produce automobiles. IN A world which is becoming increasingly wedded to the idea that writers are made and not born, Isak Dinesen stands forth as a shining exception. ![]()
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