She also joked that when she departed, the headlines would read, “Sex Change Author Dies.”Jan Morris was born James Humphrey Morris on Oct 2, 1926, in Somerset, England. The first volume was written by James, the second while in transition and the third as Jan Morris. Morris found early success as a journalist, scooping the world on Edmund Hillary’s and Tenzing Norgay’s ascent of Everest while nearly climbing the entire mountain herself. She was a distinctive, elegant, formidable and wickedly snobby historian and travel writer and occasional novelist. Her most approachable book — Jan Morris for beginners — is “Pleasures of a Tangled Life,” published in 1989.

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