Jan Morris

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jun/12/jan.morris
Published: 6/12/2008
Updated: 7/19/2008

Jan Morris lived and wrote as James Morris until she completed a change of sexual role in 1972. James Humphrey Morris was born in Somerset in 1926 but, says Morris, "I was three or perhaps four years old when I realized that I had been born into the wrong body, and should really be a girl."