Ira Victor Morris

Ira Victor Morris or I.V. Morris (1903–1972) was an American writer and journalist.

Biography Morris was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1903 to a Jewish family, the son of Constance Lily (née Rothschild) and Ira Nelson Morris. 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. 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. Marching Orders (1938) The Beautiful Fire (1939) Liberty Street (1944) Livaaqaa (1944) La mort est moins pressée (1947) The Tree Within (1948) The Chicago Story (1952) The Bombay Meeting (1955) The Road to Spain (1966)