birth_date: 1935-05-24 00:00:00
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name: Sylvia Jukes Morris
about: Sylvia Jukes Morris was a British-born biographer, based in the United States. Her two volume biography on Clare Boothe Luce is considered to be an example of both excellent research and writing. She spent 33 years on the Luce biography, examining 460,000 items at the Library of Congress that stretched 319 linear feet. She was married to writer Edmund Morris ( The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt) from 1966 until his death in 2019. She passed away from cancer eight months after her husband's death. She was eighty-four years old at the time of her death. Sylvia Jukes Morris was a British-born biographer, based in the United States. Her two volume biography on Clare Boothe Luce is considered to be an example of both excellent research and writing. She spent 33 years on the Luce biography, examining 460,000 items at the Library of Congress that stretched 319 linear feet. She was married to writer Edmund Morris ( The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt) from 1966 until his death in 2019. She passed away from cancer eight months after her husband's death. She was eighty-four years old at the time of her death. ...more
death_date: 2020-01-05 00:00:00