Errol Trzebinski
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Errol Trzebinski (born 24 June 1936 in Gloucester) is a British writer of books on the Happy Valley set of colonial Kenya.
Her book Silence Will Speak was a source for the script of the 1985 Hollywood movie Out of Africa. Her late husband, Sbish Trzebinski, appears as a drunkard in the film and is slapped by Meryl Streep when he insults her.
Errol cast doubt on the authorship of West with the Night and claimed tat Beryl Markham's third husband, Raoul C. Schumacher, was the ghostwriter.
Personal life
She lives and works in Lamu Island, Kenya.{{cn|date=June 2022}} Her son is the painter Tonio Trzebinski, who was murdered in Kenya in 2001.{{cn|date=June 2022}}
Works
- Silence Will Speak: A Study of the Life of Denys Finch Hatton and His Relationship With Karen Blixen (1977);{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/movies/bestpictures/africa-re.html|title='Out of Africa,' Starring Meryl Streep|date=18 December 1985|work=New York Times|accessdate=11 July 2011}}
- The Kenya Pioneers: The Frontiersmen of an Adopted Land (1985);{{cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-393-02287-2|title=The Kenya Pioneers|work=Publishers' Weekly|accessdate=11 July 2011}}
- The Lives of Beryl Markham: Out of Africa's Hidden Free Spirit and Denys Finch Hatton's Last Great Love (1993);{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/24/books/books-of-the-times-a-ghost-writer-haunts-a-famous-pilot-s-ghost.html|title=Books of The Times; A Ghost Writer Haunts a Famous Pilot's Ghost|work=New York Times|pages=24 August 1993|accessdate=11 July 2011|first=Michiko|last=Kakutani|date=24 August 1993}}
- The Life and Death of Lord Erroll: The Truth Behind the Happy Valley Murder (2000).{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/6788327/White-mischief-and-bloody-murder.html|title=White mischief and bloody murder|work=Daily Telegraph|accessdate=11 July 2011|location=London|first=Andrew|last=Alderson|date=16 December 2009}}
See also
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