Quotes by Elspeth Huxley

About Elspeth Huxley:

Elspeth Joscelin Huxley was an author, journalist, broadcaster, magistrate, environmentalist, farmer, and government advisor. She wrote 30 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. Her husband, Gervas Huxley, was a grandson of Thomas Huxley and a cousin of Aldous Huxley.
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...that's the way to tell a true story from a made-up one. A made-up story always has a neat and tidy end. But true stories don't end, at least until their heroes and heroines die, and not then really because the things they did and didn't do, someti...

Elspeth Huxley

this was a moment of magic revealing to us all, for a few moments, a hidden world of grace and wonder beyond the one of which our eyes told us, a world that no words could delineate, as insubstanttial as a cloud, as iridescent as a dragon-fly and as ...

Elspeth Huxley

Author Bio

  • NameElspeth Huxley
  • DescriptionKenyan writer
  • BornJuly 23, 1907
  • DiedJanuary 10, 1997
  • ProfessionJournalist
  • AwardsCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire