Jan Morris

Jan Morris CBE (born James Morris, 2 October 1926 in Clevedon, Somerset, England, but by heritage and adoption Welsh), is a British historian and travel writer. She is known particularly for the Pax Britannica trilogy, a history of the British Empire, and for portraits of cities, notably Oxford, Venice, Trieste and New York.

Books (partial list)

• Manhattan '45
• Coronation Everest
• In Search of England
• Last Letters from Hav (novel)
• Fifty Years of Europe: An Album
• The Venetian Empire (1980)
• Fisher's Face
• Oxford (1965)
• The Oxford Book of Oxford (editor)
• The Matter of Wales
• Lincoln: A Foreigner's Quest
• Conundrum
• Coast to Coast: A Journey Across 1950s America
• Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere
• The World: Life and Travel 1950–2000
• Pax Britannica trilogy:
• Heaven's Command
• The Climax of an Empire
• Farewell the Trumpets