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That was so important?

Would you like to talk a little bit about Isak Dinesen?

Well, I never met Isak Dinesen until just before her death. She never came over here until just about a year before she died. When she came, she was a bag of bones. I never saw a woman as thin as she was. I bet she weighed less than ninety pounds. And all she seemed to subsist on was caviar and champagne. That was the only thing she seemed to eat. At cocktail parties she would ask for some champagne and some caviar. Bob Haas more or less took care of her. We published everything she ever wrote.

Was Out of Africa published under your auspices or was it published before?

That was done by Smith and Haas, but then we did The Winter's Tale and all her later books.

I think she's a very fine writer on Africa.

A wonderful short story writer and a remarkable woman. We've done a whole, very carefully detailed biography of her.

When you say remarkable could you give me a story or explain her at all?