Ariel Johns Derek
Ariel Johns Derek Jan Morris is one of the great British writers of the post-war era. For many readers she is best known for her candid memoir Conundrum, which described the gender reassignment…
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Ariel Johns Derek
Jan Morris is one of the great British writers of the post-war era. For many readers she is best known for her candid memoir Conundrum, which described the gender reassignment operation she underwent in 1972.But as Ariel demonstrates, this is just one of the many remarkable facts about her life. Soldier, journalist, writer about places (rather than 'travel writer'), elegist of the British Empire, novelist, she has fashioned a distinctive prose style that is elegant, fastidious, supple, and sometimes gloriously gaudy.
She has been described by Rebecca West as the finest prose stylist of her time, and her essays span the entire urban world. As James Morris she was the journalist who brought back the story of the conquest of Everest in 1953 and who discovered incontrovertible evidence of British involvement in the Suez Crisis of 1956. Her many books include a