Pioneering writer Jan Morris has died

Jan Morris, who broke both huge news stories and silence about being transgendered in her writing, has died.

She died this morning at age ninety-four.

Morris reported on such historic events as the first ascension of Mount Everest and released several books before releasing Conundrum, a memoir that described her transition from biologically male to female.

She continued to write in the decades following, most notably publishing a three-volume history of the British empire (Pax Britannica) and a Booker Prize-shortlisted novel (Last Letters from Hav).

Read more about Morris in the Guardian.

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