![]() ![]() ![]() She married 3 times in the span of ten years. In her autobiography The Searching Spirit, Adamson wrote about her grandmother, saying, "It is to her I owe anything that may be good in me."Īdamson considered careers as a concert pianist, and in medicine, but did not take her finals in medicine, instead chosing to get married. After the divorce of her parents, Joy went to live with her grandmother. ![]() In 1977, she was awarded the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art.īorn to Victor and Traute Gessner in Troppau, Silesia, Austria-Hungary (now Opava, Czech Republic) and was the 2nd of 3 girls. Born Free was printed in several languages, and made into an Academy Award-winning movie of the same name. Joy Adamson (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. ![]()
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