Jan Morris was a natural exhibitionist at talks or on television but less of an extrovert in her writing. Photograph from March 2nd, 1988. Photograph: Doris Thomas/Fairfax Media/Getty Images Born in Clevedon on the coast of Somerset in 1926, Jan Morris wrote 60 books embracing history, travel, memoir, biography, architecture, diaries, essays and journalism, while a novel was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1985. Halfway through her life Morris adopted Welsh nationalism, rejecting her English background, later accepting a CBE but remaining unapologetic about her love of Wales. She travelled the world reporting on major stories but disliked being...