Jan Morris, CBE (born James Humphrey Morris, 2 October 1926) is a Welsh historian, author and travel writer. She is known particularly for the Pax Britannica trilogy (1968–78), a history of the British Empire, and for portraits of cities, notably Oxford, Venice, Trieste, Hong Kong, and New York City.Born in England of an English mother and Welsh father, Morris was educated at Lancing College, West Sussex, and Christ Church, Oxford, and considers herself Welsh. She is a trans woman and was published under her birth name until 1972, when she transitioned from living as male to living as female.
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.
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Underwent sex reassignment surgery in 1972. Her book, Conundrum, chronicles her thoughts and feelings of her experience.
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Title
Year
Status
Character
Queen Victoria's Empire
2001
TV Series documentary
Herself
Did You See..?
1980
TV Series documentary
Herself
Personenbeschreibung
1978
TV Series documentary
Herself
The Conquest of Everest
1953
Documentary
Herself (James Morris, correspondent, London Times) (uncredited)
$850,000