Edmund Morris was born in Kenya and educated at the Prince of Wales School, Nairobi, and Rhodes University, Grahamstown, 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 the American Book Award in 1980. In 1985 he was appointed Ronald Reagan's authorized biographer. He has written extensively on travel and the arts for such publications as The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harper's, and The Washington Post. The second volume of his Roosevelt biography, Theodore Rex, has recently been published, and will be followed by a third. Edmund Morris lives in New York and Washington, D.C., with his wife and fellow biographer, Sylvia Jukes Morris.
“Magnificent . . . one of those rare works that is both definitive
for the period it covers and fascinating to read for sheer
entertainment.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Theodore Roosevelt, in this meticulously researched and
beautifully written biography, has a claim on being the most
interesting man ever to be President of this country.”—Los Angeles
Times Book Review
“Spectacles glittering, teeth and temper flashing, high-pitched
voice rasping and crackling, Roosevelt surges out of these pages
with the force of a physical presence.”—The Atlantic Monthly
“[Morris’s] prose is elegant and at the same time hard and lucid,
and his sense of narrative flow is nearly flawless. . . . The
author re-creates a sense of the scene and an immediacy of the
situation that any skilled writer should envy and the most jaded
reader should find a joy.”—The Miami Herald
“A monumental work in every sense of the word . . . a book of
pulsating and well-written narrative.”—The Christian Science
Monitor
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