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November 20, 2020 (94 years old)
Zodiac Sign
Libra
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Jan Morris is a Welsh tourism historian, author and writer. She is best known for her Pax Britannica trilogy, British Empire history, and portraits of cities including Oxford, Venice, Trieste, Hong Kong and New York. She published under her birth name, James, until 1972 when she underwent sex change surgery after switching from male to female. As James Morris, she was part of the 1953 British Peak Everest Expedition, the first to cross the mountain. She was the only journalist to accompany the expedition, with the crew scaling a camp at an elevation of 22,000 feet in the mountains and was famous for having successfully climbed as published in The Times on June 2, 1953, the date of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
BornJames Humphry Morris:4, October 2, 1926, Clevedon, Somerset, England
DiedNovember 20, 2020, Pwllheli, Wales
OccupationWriter
NationalityWelsh
GenreNon-fiction, travel writing
Children5

About Jan Morris

Non-Fiction Author Jan Morris was born on October 2, 1926 in England (She dies at the age of 94, on November 20, 2020).

She is a travel writer whose expositions of Hong Kong, Venice, and Oxford have gotten her a lot of press. The Pax Britannica trilogy, her most famous work, was released between 1968 and 1978.

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Jan Morris before becoming famous

Jan Morris was born in the Zodiac sign Libra (The Scales), and 1926 is also the year of Tiger (兎) in the Chinese Zodiac.

James Humprey Morris was her given name and she lived as a man until 1972.

Achievement of Jan Morris

She got the Glyndwr Award in 1996.

Jan Morris's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

She had five children with Elizabeth Tuckniss, the daughter of a tea plantation.

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Queen Queen Elizabeth II bestowed the Queen's Birthday Honours on her in 1999.

Elizabeth II (1926 - 2022) (Queen)
Elizabeth II (1926 - 2022)

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Jan Morris Income & Net worth

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Latest information about Jan Morris updated on March 12 2023.