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Elspeth Huxley
English author, journalist, broadcaster, magistrate, environmentalist, farmer, and government adviser · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Lived 1907 to 1997 · aged 89
Elspeth Joscelin Huxley CBE was an English writer, journalist, broadcaster, magistrate, environmentalist, farmer, and government adviser. She wrote over 40 books, including her best-known lyrical books, The Flame Trees of Thika and The Mottled Lizard, based on her youth in a coffee farm in British Kenya.
Elspeth Huxley is read about 36 times a day, in 11 languages.
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Her husband, Gervas Huxley, was a grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley and a cousin of Aldous Huxley.
