Oops. I was wrong about the opening line.

I had a farm in Africa.

not, "I once had a farm"

Her pen name, her real name.

Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke (Danish: [kʰɑːɑn ˈb̥leɡ̊sn̩]; 17 April 1885 – 7 September 1962), née Karen Christenze Dinesen, was a Danish author, also known by the pen name Isak Dinesen