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    • Friday, 14 October, 2022
      ReviewBiography and memoir
      Jan Morris: Life From Both Sides — journey of a lifetime

      Amid the demure prose in Paul Clements’ biography of the historian and travel writer are glimpses of a titanic ego

    • Saturday, 28 November, 2020
      The FT guide to compassion: at home, work and play
      Jan Morris: war, peace and the virtue of kindness

      The greatest travel writer of her generation has died. In an extract from her most recent book, she reflects on an extraordinary life

    • Saturday, 21 November, 2020
      Obituary
      Jan Morris, travel writer hailed as the Flaubert of the Jet Age, 1926-2020

      Reporter who broke the story of Everest’s conquest and became a transgender pioneer

    • Saturday, 21 November, 2020
      FT Series
      A collection of stories from Jan Morris, who has died aged 94

      FT tales from the travel writer, journalist and historian who broke the news of the first ascent of Everest

    • Friday, 20 March, 2020
      ReviewBiography and memoir
      Thinking Again by Jan Morris — the final frontier

      In what may be her last work, the Welsh author explores the epic and the everyday

    • Friday, 12 October, 2018
      ReviewLife & Arts
      In My Mind’s Eye by Jan Morris — straying from the herd

      Her travelling days may be over, but the grand dame of travel writing still offers novel perspectives on the world

    • Friday, 23 March, 2018
      FT SeriesA collection of stories from Jan Morris, who has died aged 94
      Writer Jan Morris on reporting from Everest and changing sex

      Travel has fuelled her outsized life. At 91, she reflects on the meaning of adventure

    • Friday, 8 December, 2017
      Best of the FT in 2017
      Travel writers share their best discoveries (and disappointments)

      William Dalrymple, Jan Morris, Pico Iyer and a panel of FT travel writers look back on 2017’s highlights

    • Friday, 24 March, 2017
      FT SeriesA collection of stories from Jan Morris, who has died aged 94
      The Diary: Jan Morris

      The writer muses on pilots, poetry and martinis

    • Friday, 18 November, 2016
      FT SeriesA collection of stories from Jan Morris, who has died aged 94
      Home truths: Jan Morris on writing a diary at 90

      First up: music, tears and American ‘niceness’, and why the English don’t smile now

    • Friday, 17 June, 2016
      FT SeriesA collection of stories from Jan Morris, who has died aged 94
      Jan Morris: a tale of two beaches

      Where Waikiki is full of rock ’n’ roll dazzle, Cricieth in Wales has rather more modest charms. But, says the renowned travel writer, there are reasons to love them both

    • Friday, 27 September, 2013
      Life & Arts
      Avignon: a city at ease with its rollercoaster past
    • Saturday, 20 May, 2006
      Life & Arts
      Contrasts and contradictions
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