J
Joy Adamson
Writer
- Born
- January 20, 1910
- Died
- January 3, 1980 (age 69)
- From
- Troppau, Silesia, Austria-Hungary [now Opava, Czech Republic]
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Joy Adamson (20 January 1910 – 3 January 1980) (born Friederike Victoria Gessner) 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. Description above from the…
