Kenneth Morris (author)

Kenneth Vennor Morris (31 July 1879 – 21 April 1937), sometimes using the Welsh form of his name Cenydd Morus,^[1] was a Welsh author and theosophist. Born in South Wales, he relocated to London with his family as a child, and was educated at Christ's Hospital. In 1896, he lived in Dublin for a while, where he became friends with George William Russell.^[2] From 1908 to 1930, Morris lived in California as a staffperson of the Theosophical Society headquarters at Point Loma. The last seven years of his life were spent back in his native Wales, during which time he founded seven Welsh theosophical lodges. Morris was a friend of Talbot Mundy, and the two writers often commentated on each other's work in magazine The Theosophical Path.^[3]

Kenneth Morris
Kenneth Morris, 1920s.
Born	(1879-07-31)31 July 1879
Died	21 April 1937(1937-04-21) (aged 57)
Occupation	Writer

According to Ursula K. Le Guin, Morris is one of the three master prose stylists of fantasy of the 20th century, together with E. R. Eddison and J. R. R. Tolkien.^[4]

Works

• The Fates of the Princes of Dyfed (1914) As Cenydd Morus.
• The Crest-Wave of Evolution (1919-1921)
• The Secret Mountain and Other Tales (1926)
• Book of the Three Dragons (1930)
• The Chalchiuhite Dragon: A Tale of Toltec Times (1992)
• The Dragon Path: Collected Tales of Kenneth Morris (1995)