Morris, Jan (1926–)

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Morris, Jan (1926–)

British travel writer. Name variations: James Morris. Born James Morris, 1926, in Somerset, England; attended Lancing Colege and Oxford University; m. Elizabeth Tuckniss, 1949.

Worked for London Times as foreign sub-editor and for The Guardian; began to work independently as travel writer, traveling to more than 70 major cities around world by early 1960s; had gender-change operation (1972), as recounted in Conundrum (1974), and began publishing under name Jan Morris (1973); travel books include The Market of Seleukia (1957), South African Winter (1958), Cities (1963), The Presence of Spain (1964), Travels (1976), Journeys (1984), Locations (1992), Fifty Years of Europe: An Album (1997), and Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere (2001); historical works include trilogy Pax Britannica (1968, 1973, 1978) which was published under name James Morris.

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