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Profile of J.C. Morris, author of The End of Arrogance

by Dolores Finnigan

J.C. Morris, a freelance writer who has published two non-fiction best-sellers and countless articles, was born in Montreal, Canada. Her family moved to Pennsylvania in 1940.A nomadic life in formative years combined with travels as a military officer's wife provided rich threads for future tapestries. From her education begun in a one-room schoolhouse through study at the Sorbonne, Morris' learning continued throughout her life. Her writings, including mysteries and legal thrillers, are all based on solid research. She spent three years studying Maryland law, while living in the capitol, for her novel, Lawyer's Poker, set in Annapolis. Rue du Chateau reflects her three years in a small French village outside of Paris and The Hostile Attitude her years living in Japan.

During the early years she did copy and layout for J. B. Lippincott, Philadelphia, followed by local news for the Red Bank (N.J.) Register and the Columbia (S.C.) State, and a column in a Tokyo newspaper. Morris studied history behind the scenes and scribbled fiction in spare moments, coming up with her current novel, The End of Arrogance, which author Margaret Whitman Blair describes as "A book with both breadth and depth in its swoop through the twentieth century. A tale of sibling rivalry that's more than just a clash of personalities, it is the struggle of the Old World against the New."

Even in her retirement at White Horse Village in Gradyville, people, places, and plots keep pouring forth. Waiting in the wings is a spy thriller, The Hostile Attitude, about brainwashing in Korea, with a McCain-like hero.

Her current novel, The End of Arrogance, takes the reader from the drawing rooms of Edwardian England, the art world of Paris, to the New World and straight into the hearts of her characters, as they struggle with the changes of the tempestuous 20th century. Her prose has an effect akin to that last steep drop on a roller coaster ride, as these individuals grapple with the erosion of inherited privilege.

Her book can be found on Buybooksontheweb.com, Amazon.com, or on the author's Web site, BookOracle.com. Chester County Book and Music Store in the West Goshen shopping center, or in Wayne at Reader's Forum as well as at the Franklin Institute gift shop. The cover shows the sinking Titanic, symbol of inherited privilege that takes down a way of life.

By Dolores Finnigan, a free lance writer who lives in Havertown, PA.