Jan Morris, author and transgender pioneer, dies at 94

FILE - In this May 29, 2013 file photo, travel writer, journalist and author, Jan Morris, center, with the Duke of Edinburgh, right, during a reception to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the ascent of Everest, at the Royal Geographical Society in London. Morris, the celebrated journalist, historian, world traveler and fiction writer who became a pioneer of the transgender movement, has died at 94. Her literary representative, United Agents, says Morris died in Wales on Friday, Nov. 20, 2020.

Morris died in Wales on Friday morning, according to her literary representative, United Agents. Her agent Sophie Scard confirmed her death. Morris had been in failing health. Additional details were not immediately available. She was so concerned that rival reporters would steal her scoop she used coded language for the dispatch back home, relayed through an India military radio outpost: “Snow conditions bad stop advanced base abandoned yesterday stop awaiting improvement.”

“I read it as a brilliant description of the crossroads of the West and East ... viewed by a woman who has truly seen the world, and who lives in it with twice the intensity of most of us,” Le Guin wrote. “Into that hiatus, while my betters I suppose were asking for forgiveness or enlightenment, I inserted silently every night, year after year throughout my boyhood, an appeal less graceful but no less heartfelt: ‘And please, God, let me be a girl. Amen,’” Morris wrote in her memoir.

I'm so sorry. Her life was inspirational and her work could be startlingly profound.

What a life ❤️JanMorris

RIP

RIP Jan. Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere is one of the most perfect of books and certainly one of my favourites.

RIP

THATS A SHAME

Transitioned into death

Rest In Peace ! Journalists can’t afford to lose a honestly good 1 !!

RIP🙏🙏🙏

There is no transgender movement, only a fake transgender construct. No, don’t me. Think.

Soooooo he died or she died? 🤷🏻‍♂️😂

'Just as JESUS was persecuted, the church must also be persecuted. 예수님께서 박해당하셨던 것과 같이 교회 또한 박해를 당해야 합니다. GlobalMegaVigil

RIP Jan

Well he was told, STOP smoking, it will kill you

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