Edmund Morris
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born
May 27, 1940
gender
male
place of birth
Nairobi, Kenya
genre
History, Biographies & Memoirs
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Edmund Morris is a writer best known for his biographies of United States presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan. Morris received his early education in Kenya after which he attended Rhodes University in South Africa. He worked as an advertising copywriter in London before emigrating to the United States in 1968.
His biography The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award in 1980. After spending 14 years as President Reagan's authorized biographer, he published the national bestseller Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan in 1999.
Morris's other books include Theodore Rex, the second in a projected three-volume chronicle of the life of Theodore Roosevelt, and Beethoven: The Universal Composer. M...more
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"Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital."
— Edmund Morris (Theodore Rex)
— Edmund Morris (Theodore Rex)
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