Artist · Austria
“cartoonist”
1910
Opava
Austria
writer
1980
Joy Adamson.
Austria, 1910 to 1980
Friederike Victoria "Joy" Adamson (née Gessner; 20 January 1910 to 3 January 1980) was a Czech-born Austrian-Kenyan 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 same name.
Biodata
- Born
- 1910, Opava
- Died
- 1980, Shaba National Reserve
- Citizenship
- Austria, United Kingdom, Cisleithania
- Work
- cartoonist, writer, painter, botanical illustrator
Joy Adamson, in numbers
Sketchbook