Edmund Morris
Born in 1940
History
Edmund Morris was a renowned biographer best known for his works on US presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan.
Born in Kenya and educated in South Africa, he moved to the US in 1968.
Morris's biography of Roosevelt won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award.
He spent 14 years as Reagan's authorized biographer, resulting in the bestseller "Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan." Morris also wrote about Beethoven and contributed to publications like The New Yorker and Harper's Magazine.
He lived in New York and Connecticut with his wife, fellow biographer Sylvia Jukes Morris, until his death in 2019 at age 78.
