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Beryl Markham (October 26, 1902 - August 3, 1986), was a British-born Kenyan author and adventurer.

She was born in Leicester, England. At the age of three her parents moved to Kenya, which was then British East Africa, where she spent an adventurous childhood playing and hunting with native Africans, and, on her family's farm, developing a knowledge of and affection for horses.

As a young adult, she trained horses, becoming the first licensed horse trainer in Kenya. She later took up flying, becoming a bush pilot and the first person to fly the Atlantic Ocean east to west. These experiences were chronicled in her critically acclaimed memoir, " by Errol Trzebinski, the real author was her third husband, the writer and journalist Raoul Schumacher. Trzebinski also claimed that Beryl Markham had an advance from Houghton Mifflin to do a book on the famous international jockey Tod Sloan that Raoul Schumacher was supposed to write. Apparently Schumacher never did, and she was forced to go it alone, resulting in a manu

After living for many years in the United States, Markham moved back to Kenya in 1952, becoming for a time the most successful horse trainer in the country before her death in 1986.