Karin Michaelis was born in 1872. She was a Danish author and journalist. She first trained as a piano teacher but finds her true calling as a storyteller. One of her books is The Dangerous Age. It seemed to push some boundaries and caused quite a sensation. It has been translated several times over and has been made into films several times as well. She married and divorced twice and never had any children. What I found interesting about her life was her political activity. She had warned people early on about Mussolini and Hitler and in 1932 she took part in an anti-war congress in Amsterdam. In 1933 she took in German emigrants. In 1940, with the invasion of Denmark, she herself emigrated to America. She returned to Denmark in 1946. This article is telling us that she had been sick for a week or so and that she passed away at her home, most likely from a heart attack. She died January 11, 1950.
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