| LC control no. | n 80076612 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PR6063.O7489 |
| Personal name heading | Morris, Jan, 1926-2020 |
| Variant(s) | Morris, Jan, 1926- Morris, Catherine Jan, 1926-2020 Morris, James, 1926- Morris, James Humphrey, 1926-2020 |
| Associated country | Great Britain England |
| Birth date | 1926-10-02 |
| Place of birth | Clevedon (England) |
| Place of death | Pwllheli (Wales) |
| Field of activity | Travel writing Fiction History |
| Profession or occupation | Travel writers Journalists Historians Essayists Novelists |
| Found in | Author's Conundrum, 1974. 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) A Machynlleth triad, 1994: t.p. (Jan Morris) 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") Morris, Jan. Over Europe, 2001: CIP t.p. (Jan Morris) CIP data sheet (b. Jan. 28, 1926) 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)) 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) 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) 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) |
| Associated language | eng |
| Invalid LCCN | n 80013447 n 2001025340 |
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