Review:
Jan Morris: Life from Both Sides
by Paul Clements and
An Open Door: New Travel Writing for a Precarious Century Ed. Steven Lovatt From Planet 250
Gareth Jones
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Jan Morris: Life from Both Sides
by Paul Clements and
An Open Door: New Travel Writing for a Precarious Century Ed. Steven Lovatt
Scribe, £25.00
‘Happy the hero who, after a lifetime of glorious achievement, in death finds a biographer worthy of his memory,’ wrote Jan Morris, reviewing Artemis Cooper’s biography of Patrick Leigh Fermor. We cannot know what Morris, who died in 2020, would have made of Paul Clements’s attempt to write the story of her life, but I think she would have approved – mostly.
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Gareth Jones is a freelance journalist and broadcaster. He has worked for the BBC, independent TV companies, and the UN.
