{"id":4668,"date":"2020-11-23T16:00:51","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T21:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=4668"},"modified":"2020-11-24T08:53:13","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T13:53:13","slug":"jan-morris-dies-at-94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/4668","title":{"rendered":"Jan Morris dies at 94"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jan Morris, celebrated writer and transgender pioneer has died at the age of 94.  Morris was revered for her journalism, histories, travel writings and her groundbreaking 1974 transition memoir, <em>Conundrum<\/em>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She herself rejected the term &#8220;travel writer&#8221; saying her books were &#8220;about place, which [is] nothing to do with movement&#8221; and in writing about her transition she said: &#8220;To myself I had been a woman all along and I was not going to change the truth of me, only discard the falsity&#8230;but it seemed only natural to me, and I embarked upon it only with a sense of thankfulness, like a lost traveler finding the right road at last.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2020\/nov\/20\/jan-morris-historian-travel-writer-and-trans-pioneer-dies-aged-94\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2020\/nov\/20\/jan-morris-historian-travel-writer-and-trans-pioneer-dies-aged-94<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2020\/nov\/20\/jan-morris-obituary\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2020\/nov\/20\/jan-morris-obituary<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tributes and profiles:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2020\/mar\/01\/jan-morris-thinking-again-interview-youre-talking-to-someone-at-the-very-end-of-things\">profile<\/a> from earlier this year on the occasion of the publication of <em>Thinking Again<\/em>, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/travel\/story\/2020-11-20\/appreciation-my-lunch-with-jan-morris-writer-traveler-transgender-pioneer\">appreciation<\/a> from the <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em>, a <em>Literary Hub<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/in-which-jan-morris-talks-kindness-exclamation-points-and-plays-old-records\/\">conversation<\/a> from 2016, and a CBS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/from-2000-the-journey-of-jan-morris\/#x\">profile<\/a> from 2000. &#8220;Brain Pickings&#8221; also has an in-depth <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2016\/06\/30\/jan-morris-conundrum\/\">examination<\/a> of <em>Conundrum<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/736202848daf102f48b03e4e438654c02ac5e742\/0_307_6720_4032\/master\/6720.jpg?width=1200&amp;height=1200&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=crop&amp;s=1c6acd5564f370bfe42732363769dce6\" alt=\"Jan Morris: 'You're talking to someone at the very end of things' | Jan  Morris | The Guardian\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan Morris, celebrated writer and transgender pioneer has died at the age of 94. Morris was revered for her journalism, histories, travel writings and her groundbreaking 1974 transition memoir, Conundrum. She herself rejected the term &#8220;travel writer&#8221; saying her books were &#8220;about place, which [is] nothing to do with movement&#8221; and in writing about her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":4669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[817,58,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-glbt-news","category-in-memoriam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}