Conundrum

The great travel writer Jan Morris was born James Morris. James Morris distinguished himself in the British military, became a successful and physically daring reporter, climbed mountains, crossed deserts, and established a reputation as a historian of the British empire. He was happily married, with several children. To all appearances, he was not only a man, but a man's man.

Except that appearances, as James Morris had known from early childhood, can be deeply misleading. James Morris had known all his conscious life that at heart he was a woman.

Conundrum, one of the earliest books to discuss transsexuality with honesty and without prurience, tells the story of James Morris's hidden life and how he decided to bring it into the open, as he resolved first on a hormone treatment and, second, on risky experimental surgery that would turn him into the woman that he truly was.

Author: Jan Morris
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 05/16/2006
Pages: 174
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.03w x 0.42d
ISBN13: 9781590171899
ISBN10: 1590171896
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
- Social Science | Gender Studies
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs

About the Author

JAN MORRIS (1926-2020) has written over forty books, most recently, Thinking Again: A Diary.