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Morris, Jan, 1926-2020


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  • Fuller Name

    • Catherine Jan
  • Variants

    • Morris, Jan, 1926-
    • Morris, Catherine Jan, 1926-2020
    • Morris, James, 1926-
    • Morris, James Humphrey, 1926-2020
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  • Earlier Established Forms

    • Morris, James, 1926-
    • Morris, Jan, 1926-
  • Sources

    • found: Author's Conundrum, 1974.
    • found: LC man. auth. cd.(hdg.: Morris, Jan, 1926- ; b. James Humphry Morris, Oct. 2, 1926; had sex change operation, took new name "Jan Morris"; intends to complete a trilogy using James Morris, will publish other future books as Jan Morris)
    • found: A Machynlleth triad, 1994:t.p. (Jan Morris)
    • found: Communication from author via agents, 16 September 2003(Please consolidate all works under single, current form of name: Jan Morris; original intention to maintain two bibliographic identities abandoned by publishers; "If you and those learned librarians see what I mean! It's very kind of them, anyway, to care. I don't, very much")
    • found: Morris, Jan. Over Europe, 2001:CIP t.p. (Jan Morris) CIP data sheet (b. Jan. 28, 1926)
    • found: Jan Morris (1926- ) Web site, Feb. 19, 2004(Jan Morris / James Morris (1926- ); travel writer, journalist, historian, essayist and novelist; lists works, incl. Over Europe (1991))
    • found: glbtq.com, May 9, 2008(Catherine Jan Morris, born James Humphrey Morris in Clevedon, Somerset, in 1926, lived the first half of her life as a male)
    • found: Wikipedia, March 23, 2014(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 Clevedon, Somerset, England; she is a transsexual woman and was published under her birth name until 1972, when she transitioned from living as male to living as female; began medical transition in 1964; in 1972, Morris travelled to Morocco to undergo sex reassignment surgery)
    • found: Wikipedia, 12 Jan. 2021(Jan Morris; born James Humphry Morris, 2 Oct. 1926-20 Nov. 2020; Welsh historian, author and travel writer; d. in Pwllheli, Wales)
  • LC Classification

    • PR6063.O7489
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  • Change Notes

    • 1980-08-01: new
    • 2023-12-13: revised
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