Huxley, Elspeth Josceline (1907–1997)

English novelist. Born in Kenya, she wrote many fictional works and essays on her native land, its history, and its problems. Her best-known novel is The Flame Trees of Thika (1959), which deals with her childhood, as do The Mottled Lizard (1962), and Death of an Aryan (1986, also known as The African Poison Murders).

In 1993 she published a biography of Peter Scott entitled Peter Scott: Painter and Naturalist.