Ira Victor MorrisorI.V. Morris (1903–1972) was an American writer and journalist.[1]
Ira Victor Morris
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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) |
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 MinistertoSweden (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]
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]