Ariel A Literary Life of Jan Morris

Author(s): Derek Johns

Biography & Memoir

Jan Morris is one of the great British writers of the post-war era. Soldier, journalist, writer about places, elegist of the British Empire, novelist, she is best known to many for her candid memoir Conundrum, which described the gender reassignment operation she underwent in 1972. But, as Ariel demonstrates, this is just one of the many remarkable facts about her life. Derek Johns was Jan Morris’s literary agent for twenty years, and Ariel is a literary life, an appreciation of the work and achievements of someone who besides being a delightful writer is known to many as a generous, affectionate, witty and irreverent friend.


Product Information

An appreciation of the work and life of the great historian and travel writer.

Derek Johns has been a bookseller, editor, publisher and literary agent. He is a former trustee of English PEN and a member of the Advisory Committee of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. His novel The Billy Palmer Chronicles was published in 2010. He lives in London.

General Fields

  • : 9780571331642
  • : Faber & Faber
  • : Faber & Faber
  • : 0.171
  • : September 2017
  • : 19.70 cmmm X 13.00 cmmm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : September 2017
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Derek Johns
  • : 304
  • : 828.914
  • : en
  • : Main
  • : Paperback