Elspeth Huxley, Kenyan-English journalist and author (born 1907)

Elspeth Huxley

English writer, journalist, magistrate, environmentalist and adviser

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…