Isak Dinesen was the pen-name of Karen Blixen, who was born in Rungsted, Denmark in 1885.
After their divorce, she continued to run the plantation until a collapse in the coffee market forced her back to Denmark..
Together they went to Kenya to manage a coffee plantation.
After studying art, she married her cousin, Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke.
Isak Dinesen was the pen-name of Karen Blixen, who was born in Rungsted, Denmark in 1885