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Also Known As Joy-Friederike Victoria Gessner
Born January 20, 1910 • Austria-Hungary
Died January 3, 1980 (aged 69) • Kenya
Founder Elsa Conservation Trust
Notable Works “The Story of Elsa”

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Joy Adamson
Joy Adamson with Elsa
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Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Kenyan writer
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Grace Ogot
Kenyan author
Louis S.B. Leakey
Louis Leakey
Kenyan archaeologist and anthropologist
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Ian Maclaren
Scottish author
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Martha Ostenso
Canadian author
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Arthur Hailey
Canadian writer
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Mary Hayley Bell
British author and actress
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John Banim
Irish author
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Michael Banim
Irish author
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Mary Novello Clarke
English author
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George Douglas Howard Cole
British economist
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Juliana Ewing
British author
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
English author
Engraved portrait of John Milton by Jacob Houbraken, showing Milton with shoulder-length hair, a lace collar, and period clothing, facing forward in an oval frame.
John Milton
English poet, pamphleteer, and historian
British prime minister Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
prime minister of United Kingdom
Painting of Samuel Johnson showing Johnson seated at a desk with a quill in hand and papers before him, wearing a brown coat and white wig.
Samuel Johnson
English author
William Blake
William Blake
English engraver, artist, and poet
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
British writer
Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer
English writer
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer