Joy Adamson

Writing

Born: 1910-01-20
Died: 1980-01-03
From: Troppau, Silesia, Austria-Hungary [now Opava, Czech Republic]
Gender: Female
Popularity: 0.1

Biography

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 Wikipedia article Joy Adamson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Awards & Nominations2 won · 0 nominated

🏆 Won

Austrian Decoration for Science and Art

1976
🏆 Won

Grenfell Medal

1947