Either side of 25-year-old Beryl Markham - who went on to become the ... 11 months later so he could marry his most famous lover, American divorcee Wallis Simpson. The duke soldiered on as a ...

She also takes on a succession of lovers, including flying instructor ... of her tempestuous life that she couldn`t master. Says Beryl Markham of old age, ”God, it`s boring.” ...

Among the friends Beryl Markham had made as a young woman were Karen Blixen, who wrote Out of Africa under the name Isak Dinesen, and Denys Finch Hatton, a big-game hunter and Blixen’s lover.

Beryl Markham is preparing to die when her airplane stalls over the icy Atlantic Ocean in the exciting first pages of Paula McLain’s new novel “Circling the Sun.” Blinded by fog, Markham’s ...