Arthur Morris | |
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| Born | May 27, 1940 Nairobi, Kenya Colony |
| Died | May 24, 2019 (aged 78) Danbury, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Education | Rhodes University |
| Subjects | American history |
| Notable works | |
| Notable awards | Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography (1980) |
| Spouse | |
Arthur Edmund Morris (May 27, 1940 – May 24, 2019) was an American-South African writer, known for his biographies of U.S. Presidents. His 1979 book The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography and was the first of a trilogy of books on Roosevelt. However, Morris sparked controversy with his 1999 book, Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan, due to its extensive use of fictional elements.