The great travel writer Jan Morris was born James Morris. James Morris distinguished himself in the British military, became a successful and physically daring reporter, climbed mountains, crossed deserts, and established a reputation as a historian of the British empire. He was happily married, with several children. To all appearances, he was not only a man, but a man’s man.

Except that appearances, as James Morris had known from early childhood, can be deeply misleading. James Morris had known all his conscious life that at heart he was a woman.

Conundrum , one of the earliest books to discuss transsexuality with honesty and without prurience, tells the story of James Morris’s hidden life and how he decided to bring it into the open, as he resolved first on a hormone treatment and, second, on risky experimental surgery that would turn him into the woman that he truly was.

简·莫里斯（Jan Morris，1926年—），被欧洲文学界誉为“20世纪最优秀的旅行作家”。她著作等身，累计出版超过三十余部作品，包括小说、历史与旅行文学作品。她是英国皇家文学学会会员，曾获大英帝国勋章（OBE）。2008年1月，莫里斯被《泰晤士报》评选为 二战后英国最伟大的十五名作家之一。

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郁飞（1928-2014年）译者、编辑，郁达夫长子，曾先后编辑出版十二卷本《郁达夫全集》，翻译出版过《海誓山盟》《拿破仑传》《马达哈丽》《她他》等著作。他翻译完成了当年林语堂一心委托郁达夫翻译的《瞬息京华》（Moment in Peking），即《京华烟云》, 至今仍然被文学界公认为是最好的译本。他的回忆文章《我在星洲三年》《我的父亲郁达夫》流传很广。