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Karen Blixen (1885-1962) was born on her family's rural estate, Rungstedlund, 15 miles north of Copenhagen. The timber and stucco manor house faces the Oresund, the channel dividing Denmark and Sweden. At the age of 28, Karen Blixen left for East Africa to start a pioneer coffee farm with her husband (and second cousin), Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke. This effort lasted seventeen years, until she returned to Denmark to pursue a literary career in 1931. Renowned for her books Out of Africa, Seven Gothic Tales, and Winter's Tales, she died at Rungstedlund at the age of seventy-seven.
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