Jan Morris

Jan Morris was born in 1926 in Somerset, Great Britain, and lived the first 46 years of her life as James Morris before undergoing gender reassignment surgery in 1972. During World War II, she served as an intelligence officer in the British Army in Palestine and Italy. After the war, she studied English literature at Oxford and began her career as a journalist for "The Times," achieving significant professional success. She worked as a foreign correspondent for "The Times" and "The Guardian," and from the 1960s onwards, she dedicated herself exclusively to writing. Her body of work exceeds 40 books and includes travel literature, essays, autobiographical texts, novels, and short stories. She received significant honors for her work, including being a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Honorary Fellow of Christ Church, Oxford. In 2008, she was ranked 15th on "The Times" list of the greatest British post-war writers. She passed away on November 20, 2020