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MORRIS, JAN

Jan Morris was born in Somerset in 1926 and received her B.A. in 1951 and her M.A. in 1961, both from Christ Church, Oxford. Jan Morris has written studies of Venice, Oxford, Manhattan, Sydney, Hong Kong, Spain and Wales. She is the author of the Pax Britannica trilogy about the British Empire, two autobiographical books, six volumes of collected travel essays and a novel, Last Letters from Hav, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1985. She has also edited the Oxford Book of Oxford and the travel writings of Virginia Woolf.

Jan Morris is an Honorary D. Litt of the University of Wales, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of Academi, and a member of the Gorsedd of Bards. She lives in Llanystumdwy.

Selected Publications:
A Venetian Bestiary (Thames and Hudson, 1982)
Compass Points (University of Wales Press, 1993)
Venice (Faber & Faber, 1993)
Fisher’s Face (Viking, 1995)
Wales – Epic Views of a Small Country (Penguin, 2000)
Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere (Faber & Faber, 2001)
A Writer’s House in Wales (National Geographic Society, 2002)
Conundrum (Faber & Faber, 2002)
A Writer’s World: Travels 1950–2000 (Faber & Faber, 2003)
Coronation Everest (Faber & Faber, 2003)
Pax Britannica (Trilogy): Heaven’s Command, Pax Britannica and Farewell the Trumpets (Faber & Faber, 2003)
Hav (Faber & Faber, 2006)

You can contact Jan through her publishers, Faber & Faber on: 020 7465 0045