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	BBC - BBC Four Profile - Jan Morris
		James's transformation into Jan, covered in her book Conundrum, took many years, beginning with taking female hormones during the early 1960s and culminating in the final operation in 1972.
		But Jan Morris is just as accepted as James ever was.
		Though a CBE, Jan Morris's proudest achievement has been her election as a member of the Gorsedd of bards, Wales's cultural elite.
	www.bbc.co.uk /bbcfour/documentaries/profile/profile_jan_morris.shtml (579 words)

	Jan Morris (1926 - )
		This is very much Jan Morris’s style, especially in her shorter pieces for newspapers and magazines, and it is a style many travel writers, male and female, have sought to emulate.
		Jan Morris has recently published what she claims to be her last book, Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere (2001).
		Jan Morris was born James Humphrey Morris, of Anglo-Welsh parentage, in Somerset, England in 1926.
	www.hku.hk /english/courses2000/2045/morris.htm (1573 words)

	Julia Ann Morris, b: 1867 - Rome, Georgia
		Died: 11 Jan 1937 - Bloomington, Bear Lake, Idaho
		Born: 28 Jan 1885 - Layton, Graham, Arizona
		Born: 5 Jan 1887 - Bloomington, Bear Lake, Idaho
	www.gedhtree.com /gp3.htm (165 words)

	Bookreporter.com - A WRITER'S HOUSE IN WALES by Jan Morris
		Morris, the progeny of a Welsh father and an English mother, takes us on a picturesque, highly impressionistic journey through Trefan Morys, her home located between the sea and the mountains in the rural northwest corner of Wales.
		But Morris makes the concept work with her finely crafted prose and her brilliant sense of history, and she opens the book with a brief description of Welsh history.
		Welsh is a language of poets, and Morris quotes freely from Welsh legends and poems.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0792265238.asp (549 words)

	Book review: Jan Morris, by Paul Clements \| Press For Change (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In Paul Clements’s lively book - not a biography, but the first major study of this renowned author - they are given comprehensive coverage, and she emerges as a passionate, driven character, ever open to new experience, and literally full of the joys of life.
		Morris is best known as a travel writer, and her books on Venice, Oxford and Spain continue to sell well after 30 years.
		Not all those who read Morris will be as keen as Clements on her style, though he admits it is often florid and overwrought.
	www.pfc.org.uk /node/18 (541 words)

	Jan Freese - Morris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Jan Freese and her husband, Jerry, live just outside of the city limits of Morris, Northeast of town on Highway 28.
		Then, as Jan stood in the middle of her kitchen, she felt the floor wave -- just like she was standing in a boat.
		Jan walked to her dining room at the southwest side of the house and the trees on the opposite side of the driveway were shaking and swaying.
	www.mrs.umn.edu /earthquakes/Stories/Freese75.html (275 words)

	Lonely Planet \| Traveller at large
		Jan Morris, the author of more than 40 books, has been called the pre-eminent travel writer of our time.
		Morris was in the Bay Area recently as the guest of honor at the annual Book Passage Travel Writers Conference, and we caught up for lunch before the event at a sunny open-air restaurant on San Francisco Bay.
		The place, she said, reminded her of Trieste, and so our conversation naturally turned to that alluring, ambiguous Adriatic city, which is the subject of her latest - and, she claims, her last - book.
	www.lonelyplanet.com /columns/traveller_archive/5September01/traveller_index.htm (119 words)

	Global wandering / From the earth-shattering to everyday events, Jan Morris' gaze scrutinized world for decades
		Of Israel in 1955, where Morris had served as a British soldier before the state's creation (and before undergoing a sex-change operation in 1972), she wrote, "Deaths and battles, armies and sieges, bloodshed and privation are the normalities of the city," and by all accounts they continue to be.
		Nevertheless, included here is an account of Morris' visit to a Casablanca clinic where she had surgery to finalize the change from male to female.
		This anthology, Morris' swan song, proves that time has neither dulled her enthusiastic vision (though she is sometimes a bit too liberal with exclamation points, and her fondness for the word "gallimaufry" gives pause) nor has it impaired her ability to render what she sees with a zest one hopes is contagious.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/11/30/RVG9Q364I21.DTL (619 words)

	morris/audio - news
		some fierce club tracks coming from burnski (“skip tha”, morris 56) including a supercool remix of up and coming polish producer slg!
		and we can’t wait to release morris 57 - two burners from the cadenza boys andomat 3000 and jan!
		morris audio citysport is going deeper with the following releases like the new dash dude 12” “tell ‘em in the city” (m.a.
	www.morrisaudio.com /news.html (98 words)

	Swans Commentary: James And Jan Morris On The Road To Nowhere, by Peter Byrne - pbyrne12
		When Morris in 2001 published Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere, she dismayed her international public by announcing it would be her last book.
		She met a mayor whose forebears on both sides hailed from faraway lands, a rabbi who assures her that anti-Semitism isn't a problem in the city, a musical director of the Opera who is not only also a composer but the owner of the tugs in the bay.
		Morris thinks back to the Cold War when Eastern Europeans swarmed over the border on poor-man's shopping sprees to be welcomed in the so-called Balkan street market.
	www.swans.com /library/art12/pbyrne12.html (2533 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Comment is free \| Leader: In praise of ... Jan Morris
		One of Jan Morris' collections of essays is Pleasures of a Tangled Life - a perfectly appropriate title for a writer who has traversed continents, genres and genders, as well as decades.
		After the war Morris worked as a journalist of great distinction, scooping the world in reporting the conquest of Everest by Hillary and Tensing in 1953 for the Times, and, as a war correspondent for the Guardian, providing the first evidence that the Anglo-French forces invading Suez in 1956 were acting in concert with Israel.
		But it is as an author that Morris is best known today, for works such as her Pax Britannica trilogy, on the rise and fall of the British Empire, which deftly refashioned conventional history into narrative.
	www.guardian.co.uk /commentisfree/story/0,,1885299,00.html (264 words)

	Salon Travel \| Writers we love: Jan Morris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		One of the qualities I love in Morris' work is how she plays with the conventions of travel writing, how she stands these conventions on their heads -- just as travel itself so often plays with our own preconceptions.
		Morris starts us out "in medias res," in the middle of her own experience of the city, in the heart of the action.
		Of course, the penal colony and the Opera House and all the other emblems of Sydney will eventually have their place in her tale, but Morris' art is to present us with an astonishingly fresh perspective on the city from the very beginning.
	www.salon.com /travel/bag/1999/08/18/morris (832 words)

	William Morris Society: Jan Marsh, "Concerning Love: News From Nowhere and Gender."
		(Morris is here, incidentally, aiming at non-sexist language, using 'men' in the generic sense of 'persons', as when in his correspondence he occasionally used the terms 'male-man' and 'female-man' for men and women.
		Hammond also goes on to demolish an idea proffered by Guest as the view of certain 'superior' women in his own time, who 'wanted to emancipate the more intelligent part of their sex from the bearing of children', by insisting that this folly was the result of class tyranny.
		Morris knew himself to be an exception, even among his own class, in both freely choosing and enjoying his work, and his image of paradise is one where this freedom is extended to all.
	www.morrissociety.org /agregation.marsh.html (5974 words)

	Jan Morris, Fine Art Paintings
		The beauty of nature is captured in artistic renderings by Jan Morris.
		Jan’s attention to detail, highlighted by the crisp natural colors represents her signature style.
		Jan’s artwork is featured in fine gift shops in the Northern California’s wine country and collected from Australia to Sweden.
	www.janmorris.com (116 words)

	CNN - Roads well written: Traveling in step with Jan Morris - August 19, 1999
		Rereading Morris' work, I am amazed too by how she moves so easily and seductively from the universal to the particular and back again.
		Morris builds them phrase by phrase, detail by detail, until a sturdy sensual/spiritual edifice is complete.
		Rereading her works, I remember how much I love her attention to offbeat details, her eye for emblematic characters, her gentle humor and pointed wit, her encyclopedic knowledge of history and art and the ongoing dance of research and apprehension, description and analysis that whirls through her writing.
	www.cnn.com /books/news/9908/19/travel.salon/index.html (1594 words)

	Review \| A Writer's World: Travels 1950-2000 by Jan Morris
		Morris lends weight to the argument when she states that her writing became more "impressionistic" from the 1970s onwards.
		Almost 40 years later, in June 1997, Jan Morris was on hand to witness the British surrender sovereignty over that tiny dynamo:
		She has observed the city of Manhattan as it changed from a city of "boundless vivacity and verve" in the late 1950s to an "unhappy metropolis" by the close of the following decade.
	www.januarymagazine.com /biography/janmorris.html (530 words)

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	www.morrisandkeston.com (712 words)

	NYPL, LIVE from the NYPL, Event Description
		JAN MORRIS AT 80 in conversation with Paul HoldengrÃ¤ber
		To celebrate the 80th birthday of Jan Morris, Paul HoldengrÃ¤ber will conversationally ramble with the writer through some of the matters that have preoccupied her during a long life.
		Jan Morris was born in 1926 to a Welsh father and an English mother, and lived and wrote in the persona of James Morris before completing a change of sexual role in 1972.
	www.nypl.org /research/chss/pep/pepdesc.cfm?id=2378 (239 words)

	Amazon.com: Hong Kong: Books: Jan Morris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		With the benefit of extensive reading and long observation, Morris writes of Hong Kong as it nears the end of its colonial status and moves toward the "enigma of 1997," the reunification with China.
		Jan Morris knows how to sprinkle delightful illustrations of Chinese industriousness and entrepreneurial talent into her tale.
		Morris I want to state that she writes about what she knows best - and that is a writer's job.
	www.amazon.com /Hong-Kong-Jan-Morris/dp/0679776486 (1465 words)

	Random House for High School Teachers \| Catalog \| Conundrum by Jan Morris
		James Morris distinguished himself in the British military, became a successful and physically daring reporter, climbed mountains, crossed deserts, and established a reputation as a historian of the British empire.
		James Morris had known all his conscious life that at heart he was a woman.
		JAN MORRIS (1926–;), is Anglo-Welsh and lives in Wales.
	www.randomhouse.com /highschool/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781590171899 (128 words)

	Jan Morris Summary
		A prolific and innovative travel writer, Jan Morris has, paradoxically, always rejected the label of travel writer.
		Jan Morris CBE (born James Humphrey Morris on 2 October, 1926, in Clevedon, Somerset, England, but by heritage and adoption Welsh) is a British historian and travel writer.
		She is known particularly for the Pax Britannica trilogy, a history of the Britis...
	www.bookrags.com /Jan_Morris (127 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Venice: Books: Jan Morris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Jan Morris is one of the most individual and memorable of all travel writers, and this city is one she knows well and loves greatly ; that is evident on every page.
		The visual descriptions are precise and quirky, the little stories from Venetian myth and legend add character to the book and her knowledge of the history and culture of the place, worn lightly and always enlightening, never intrusive, make this a fine book.
		Morris writes beautiful prose with passion, knitting together the present and past in a seamless fashion which is nothing short of genius.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Venice-Jan-Morris/dp/0571168973 (1268 words)

	Bridges to travel: celebrated transgender travel writer Jan Morris reflects upon her century of sojourning the ...
		Bridges to travel: celebrated transgender travel writer Jan Morris reflects upon her century of sojourning the ever-changing globe
		Along with Paul Theroux, Jan Morris, author of over 40 books, is one of the most famous travel writers of our era.
		Born in 1926, she began life as James Humphrey Morris but from childhood felt that she was a girl.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1589/is_2005_March_1/ai_n12417631 (904 words)

	Jan Morris at the New York Public Library - Events
		Jan Morris at the New York Public Library
		This exciting LIVE from the NYPL event is still two months away but since tickets go on sale soon, I though it best to let you know about it ASAP.
		Jan Morris is the greatest travel writer ever!
	www.writtenroad.com /2006-08/jan-morris-at-the-new-york-public-library.html (427 words)

	Edinburgh Festivals - Jan Morris: Nations Unlimited
		We are overjoyed to welcome back one of the greatest living travel writers and thinkers for a special talk as part of our Nations Unlimited strand.
		Passionate about Wales, Jan Morris has been considering what exactly comprises Welsh national identity.
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	www.edinburgh-festivals.com /listings.cfm?sid=5259 (133 words)

	Travels with Virginia Woolf by Jan Morris- review by Ann Skea
		Yet, Morris believes that "few writers have been more powerfully inspired by a sense of place", and she finds Woolf's observations on her travels "terrific fun".
		Jan Morris is an exemplary editor, and her brief accompanying comments and explanations are informative and astute.
		Considering the range of sources from which Morris has made her selection (and which of us would care to have candid comments from our private letters published?), and the age-span which these extracts cover (15-58), it is not surprising that the quality of the writing varies.
	www.eclectica.org /v2n1/skea_travels_with_woolf.html (1045 words)

	NPG 6722; Jan Morris
		Morris then made a number of visits to di Stefano's studio, where the artist worked first on preparatory sketches and then the painting from life.
		His painting process relies in part on chance and accident, using Japanese paper to lift the surface of the wet paint, creating a palimpsest effect.
		Morris has described sitting for the portrait as 'life enhancing' and 'one of the happiest experiences of my life'.
	www.npg.org.uk /live/search/portrait.asp?mkey=mw85177 (223 words)

	Archives Network Wales - Jan Morris Papers
		Administrative/Biographical history: Jan Morris, formerly James Morris, travel-writer, historian and novelist, was born in Somerset in 1926 of Welsh and English parents.
		She spent ten years on the editorial staffs of The Times and The Guardian, and her books about places evolved from her travel experiences as a wartime soldier and as a foreign correspondent.
		The following source was used in the compilation of this description: E-mail from Jan Morris, September 2003.
	www.archivesnetworkwales.info /cgi-bin/anw/fulldesc_nofr?inst_id=1&coll_id=20372&expand= (293 words)

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