Eva Dickson was the daughter of the wealthy Albert Lindström, who managed stud farms for horse breeding, and his wife Maria.

The following year they both travelled to Ethiopia, where she covered the Abyssinia Crisis as a war correspondent for The Weekly Journal,[2] a Swedish newspaper.

After having reached Afghanistan, she was advised to detour via India, as her intended route was regarded too dangerous for a lone woman.

After a dinner one evening outside Baghdad at some friends' house, she was driving back to her hotel, but lost control over the car in a steep curve and crashed.

Her husband, Bror von Blixen, was immediately telegraphed about her death, but he was out on a safari and did not get the telegram until he came back to Nairobi on 28 July 1938.