Joy Adamson
Writing
January 20, 1910
Died at age 69
January 3, 1980
Date of Death
Troppau, Silesia, Austria-Hungary [now Opava, Czech Republic]
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Biography
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Joy Adamson (20 January 1910 – 3 January 1980) (born Friederike Victoria Gessner) was a naturalist, artist, and author best known for her book, Born Free, which describes her experiences raising a lion cub named Elsa. Born Free was printed in several languages, and made into an Academy Award-winning movie of the same name.
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