NEW YORK -- Jan Morris, the celebrated journalist, historian, world traveler and fiction writer who in middle age became a pioneer of the transgender movement, has died at 94.Morris died in Wales on Friday morning, according to her literary representative, United Agents.
Her agent Sophie Scard confirmed her death. Morris had been in failing health. Additional details were not immediately available.The British author lived as James Morris until the early 1970s, when she underwent surgery at a clinic in Casablanca and renamed herself Jan Morris.