Joy Adamson
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1910 – 1980
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Who was Joy Adamson?
Joy Adamson 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. In 1977, she was awarded the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art.
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- Born
- Jan 20, 1910
Opava - Also known as
- Joy-Friederike Victoria Gessner
- Spouses
- George Adamson
(1944 - )
- George Adamson
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Austria
- Profession
- Lived in
- Silesia
- Opava
- Austrian Silesia
- Died
- Jan 3, 1980
Kenya
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on July 23, 2013
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