Joy Adamson was born on January 20, 1910 in Troppau, Silesia, Austria-Hungary [now Opava, Czech Republic]. She was a writer, known for Born Free (1998), Königin der Wildnis (1966) and Frei geboren (1974). She was married to George Adamson, Peter René Oscar Bally and Victor Isidor Ernst Ritter von Klarwill. She died on January 3, 1980 in Shaba National Reserve, Kenya.
