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Personal Info
Known For
Writing
Born
January 20, 1910
Died
January 3, 1980 (age 69)
Place of Birth
Troppau, Silesia, Austria-Hungary [now Opava, Czech Republic]
Joy Adamson
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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