About the Author
Edmund Morris was born and educated in Kenya and went to college in South Africa. He worked as an advertising copywriter in London before immigrating to the United States in 1968. His biography
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt won the Pulitzer Prize and American Book Award in 1980. After spending several years as President Reagans authorized biographer, he published the national bestseller
Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan in 1999. He has written extensively on travel and the arts for such publications as
The New Yorker, The New York Times, and
Harpers Magazine. Edmund Morris lives in New York and Washington with his wife and fellow biographer, Sylvia Jukes Morris.
From the Hardcover edition.