Joy Adamson
Naturalist and artist
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Friederike Victoria "Joy" Adamson was a naturalist, artist and author. Her book, Born Free, 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... Wikipedia
Born: January 20, 1910, Opava, Czechia
Assassinated: January 3, 1980, Shaba National Reserve, Kenya
Spouse: Peter René Oscar Bally (m. 1938–1944) and Sir Viktor Von Klarwill (m. 1935–1937)
Resting place: Meru National Park
Genre: Nonfiction
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