Record ID:
35363458 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 80076612 n 80013447 n 2001025340
Heading:
Birth:
  • 19261002
  • Clevedon (England)
Associated with:
  • Great Britain England
Fields of activity:
  • Travel writing History Fiction
Occupations:
  • Travel writers Historians Novelists
Used for:
  • Morris, Catherine Jan, 1926-
  • Morris, James Humphrey, 1926-
  • Morris, James, 1926-
Notes:
  • 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)
Local system number:
  • (AuCNL)217652
  • 000000365370
  • abv00318225
  • (AuPaJTL)199745
  • (AU-CaAIA)XX25854
Cataloguing source:
  • DLC eng rda DLC DLC NjP DLC OCoLC DLC ViNO Uk DLC WaU
Authentication code:
  • kin