Appreciation: My lunch with travel writer and transgender pioneer Jan Morris [Los Angeles Times :: BC-MORRIS-APPRECIATION:LA]
Appreciation: My lunch with travel writer and transgender pioneer Jan Morris [Los Angeles Times :: BC-MORRIS-APPRECIATION:LA] Jan Morris, as witty, learned and enthusiastic a traveler as ever there was, died last month, at least 24 years after selecting her tombstone. She was 94, a devoted resident of Wales (where she died), a celebrated historian, journalist and transgender pioneer. As obituaries around the world will note, she unlocked secrets of Venice, Oxford, Trieste, Spain, Hong Kong, Manhattan, Moun. Everest and scores of other locations in more than a dozen volumes of history and trav...