Ira Victor Morris
Ira Victor Morris | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1903 |
| Died | 1972 (aged 69) |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | B.A. Harvard University |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Spouse | Edita Toll |
| Children | Ivan Morris |
| Parent(s) | Ira Nelson Morris Constance Lily Rothschild Morris |
| Relatives | Nelson Morris (grandfather) Abram M. Rothschild (grandfather) Edward Morris (uncle) Helen Swift Morris (aunt) Muriel Gardiner (cousin) Ruth Morris Bakwin (cousin) |
Ira Victor Morris or I.V. Morris (1903–1972) was an American writer and journalist.[1]
Biography
[edit]Morris was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1903 to a Jewish family, the son of Constance Lily (née Rothschild) and Ira Nelson Morris.[2] His mother was the daughter of Victor Henry Rothschild; and his father was the son of Nelson Morris, the founder of Morris & Company, one of the three main meat-packing companies in Chicago. He graduated with a B.A. from Harvard University.[2] As his father was a diplomat who was named the Minister to Sweden (1914–1923), the younger Morris was raised abroad.[2] Morris wrote both fiction and non-fiction works which focused on international politics and Americans living abroad.[2] After visiting the countries devastated by World War II, Morris started writing many articles criticizing the conduct of the war and later, the cold war.[1] His wife wrote The Flowers of Hiroshima (1959) which exposed the aftereffects of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.[1] They founded the Edita and Ira Morris Hiroshima Foundation for Peace and Culture which assisted victims of the bombings.[1]
Personal life
[edit]In February 1925, he married Sweden-native Edita (née Toll).[2] In 1930, she began a long-term affair with fellow Swede and artist, Nils Dardel despite her marriage to Morris (Dardel died in 1943).[3] Their son Ivan Morris was a British author and Japanologist whose third wife was author and theatrical producer Nobuko Uenishi (later married to impresario Donald Albery).
He died in 1972.[2]
Works
[edit]- A Tale from the Grave (1926)
- The Kimono (1931)
- The Sampler (1932)
- Covering Two Years (1933)[4]
- Marching Orders (1938)
- The Beautiful Fire (1939)
- Liberty Street (1944)
- Livaaqaa (1944)
- La mort est moins pressée (1947)
- The Tree Within (1948)
- The Chicago Story (1952)
- The Bombay Meeting (1955)
- The Road to Spain (1966)
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Ira Victor Morris Papers". University of Iowa Libraries. Retrieved February 5, 2019.
- ^ a b c d e f "Ira and Edita Morris Papers, 1892–1988". Columbia University Archival Collections.
- ^ "Spanish, Scandinavian, Czech and Austrian 19th century masters at Sotheby's in London this May". artdaily.org. March 15, 2019.
- ^ "Covering two years, by I. V. Morris". Haithi Trust Digital Library.
- 1903 births
- 1972 deaths
- 20th-century American Jews
- 20th-century American journalists
- 20th-century American male writers
- 20th-century American non-fiction writers
- American male journalists
- American male non-fiction writers
- American people of German-Jewish descent
- Harvard University alumni
- Jewish American journalists
- Jewish American non-fiction writers
- Morris family (meatpacking)