I first got to know Jan Morris, a diverting fellow traveller, in the beaten way of book festivals from here to Australia. But I never met James Morris, who sat under the family piano at the age of ...

A new biography examines what made the prolific travel writer and transgender figure so driven, and who was ignored along the way. By Alexandra Jacobs “Allegorizings,” a posthumous essay collection ...

Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Plus subscription to Express and Star you get full access to our award winning journalism for the news that matters to you and more. Travel writer Jan ...

Morris broke the news of the 1953 ascent of Everest and became a leading travel writer. Her own story drew fascination and ...

No writer captivated me more than Jan Morris. She climbed 22,000 feet up Mount Everest in 1953 and raced down from base camp to tell the world that Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary had reached the ...

The transgender travel writer was both temperamentally conservative and deeply unconventional By Lucy Hughes-Hallett He was a man: then she was a woman. He, and then she, wrote some of the most ...