Our free email newsletter sends you the biggest headlines from news, sport and showbiz Sign up Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Invalid EmailBritish travel writer and transgender pioneer Jan Morris has died at the age of 94. She ranked highly among travel writers, with Publishers Weekly once calling her "one of the most admired and imitated travel writers alive". "This morning at 11.40 at Ysbyty Bryn Beryl, on the Llyn, the author and traveller Jan Morris began her greatest journey," her son Twm Morys said in a statement today. "It's got my own epitaph, which is 'Here are two friends - Jan and Elizabeth Morris - at the end of one life.'" She spent much of her life in Wales, writing initially for British newspapers before embarking on a career as a travel writer.

Source: Daily Mirror November 20, 2020 19:22 UTC