Edmund Morris
Nacido: May 27, 1940 – Nairobi, Nairobi Province, Kenya Colony
Edmund Morris was a South African-born American biographer and historian known for vivid studies of U.S. presidents and inventors. His notable books include The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Rex, Colonel Roosevelt, Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan, and Edison. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt won both the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award.
Biografía y Trayectoria del Autor
Edmund Morris was a biographer and essayist whose career joined literary flair to historical ambition. Born in Nairobi in 1940 to South African parents, he was educated in Kenya and later studied music, art, and literature at Rhodes University in South Africa. His early adult years took him first into advertising in London, where he learned the compression, rhythm, and persuasive force of prose, and then to the United States in 1968. That move proved decisive. Morris later suggested that writing about Theodore Roosevelt became, in part, a way for an immigrant to educate himself about America through one of its most kinetic national figures. From that turning point came the work that established him: The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, published in 1979, which won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
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The rise of Theodore Roosevelt
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Theodore Rex
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Edison
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Voces de la Comunidad
"Edmund Morris was a polished prose stylist"
— Associated Press
"Edmund Morris is a brilliant biographer who practices his art at the highest level"
— Fred Kaplan
"Edmund Morris was a master, a master biographer and, of the highest art of all, storytelling"
— Christopher Buckley
"In Edmund Morris, a great president has found a great biographer"
— The Washington Post
"Edmund Morris’s prose is precise and engaging; his wit and thoughtfulness make for lively and often moving reading"
— Publishers Weekly
"Edmund Morris is a superb chronicler of Roosevelt’s busy, peripatetic life"
— Chicago Tribune
"Edmund Morris is a stylish storyteller with an irresistible subject"
— The New York Times Book Review
"Edmund Morris has written some of the most important biographies of the past 40 years"
— Kirkus Reviews
"The author is one of the greatest non-fiction writers of our time, Edmund Morris"
— CBS News