Jan Morris

Jan Morris was a Welsh historian, author, and travel writer, best known for the Pax Britannica trilogy and vivid portraits of cities such as Venice, Oxford, Hong Kong, and New York. Born James Humphry Morris, she transitioned in the early 1970s and later became widely recognized as one of the foremost writers about place in 20th-century literature.

Clevedon, England Oct 2, 1926 Wikipedia
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