World news – Britain – Jean Morris, writer, historian and transgender pioneer, dies at 94

Jean Morris, best known as a journalist with the 1953 news of Edmund Hillary’s conquest of Everest, was once called « one » of the travel book’s most admired and surviving tradition « 

As a journalist who became famous for publishing in 1953 about Edmund Hillary’s invasion of Mount Everest..

Morris, first published under the name James, moved to Jean after undergoing a gender reassignment in 1972 and was the author of more than thirty books..

It ranked high among travel writers, with Publishers Weekly once calling it « one of the most impressive travel writers and tradition alive ».

« This morning at 11 o’clock. 40 at Ysbyty Bryn Beryl, in Llyn, writer and traveler Jean Morris has embarked on her greatest journey,  » her son Twm Morys said in a statement today.

Morris’s books include « Manhattan 45 », on New York in 1945, « Venice », the « Pax Britannica » trilogy about the decline of the British Empire, and a « mystery » about its transformation.

Educator and transgender activist, Debbie Haiton, said Morris’ 1974 diary was understandable, and comes at a time when the only mention of transgender people in the media was dirty news headlines.

« Turn back the clock 30 years ago and all we had was Jean Morris’s book, » said Highton..

“It was a groundbreaking book telling her story while there were few other stories like this one being told..

A book of articles, « Icons », Reflections on Aging and the Complexity of Life, will be published after death.

In an interview with BBC’s « Artsnight » with writer and broadcaster Michael Palin, a popular traveler, Morris said her life was « a self-centered exercise in self-satisfaction. ».

“I thought it was a very good and fun life and intentionally made it all out.

Morris was born in Somerset, England in 1926 and has five children – among them the Welsh poet and musician Tu M. Morris..

In a 2008 interview with Reuters, she said she had been « personally concerned with my death for a long time. ».

“I got my own inheritance,” Here are two friends – Jean and Elizabeth Morris – at the end of one life.

Morris said she is « proud of her books, » saying that her favorite book is « Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere », which details her affair with the Italian city she first visited as a soldier at the end of World War II.

She spent most of her life in Wales, initially writing for British newspapers before embarking on a career as a travel writer.

She received numerous accolades over her long career, landing CBE on the Queen’s Birthday Honors list in 1999.

“Her beautiful writing has influenced many of my worlds. Paul Jenkins, CEO of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, Britain’s leading gender identity clinic, tweeted. .

Jean Morris, travel writer, Elizabeth Tokness