Biography

Jan Morris was born on October 2, 1926 in Clevedon, Avon, England, UK. She was a writer, known for Thirty Years After (1966), Omnibus (1952) and Sunday Afternoon (1987). She was married to Elizabeth Tuckniss. She died on November 20, 2020 in Pwllheli, Gwynedd, Wales.

Underwent sex reassignment surgery in 1972. Her book, Conundrum, chronicles her thoughts and feelings of her experience.

Correspondent for The Times, James sent the first message about the conquest of Everest by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953.

Her siblings were flutist and New Philharmonia Orchestra's chairman Gareth Morris and organist and music editor Christopher Morris.

On experience: It is idle to pretend that the world feels as fresh when you are 60 as it does when you are 21. You have seen too much of it...literature is more thrilling before critical relativity arises; the worst of wine, in the early years of one's life, is better than the best toward the end.