Holly Morris (Author, TV Producer-Host)

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This article is about Holly Morris, the author, television producer, and correspondent. For Holly Morris, the Washington, D.C. television reporter, see Holly Morris (Television Reporter).

Holly Morris is an American author, television documentary producer and presenter, and the former editorial director of the book publishing company Seal Press.

[edit] Biography

Morris was born in Chicago, Illinois and is the daughter of former Chicago Bears wide receiver Johnny Morris who became a longtime sportscaster for WBBM-TV in Chicago and a football color commentator with CBS Sports, and Jeannie Morris, a sports reporter and writer, who is the author of bestselling book Brian Piccolo: A Short Season, the story of the NFL player who died of cancer at the age of 26 and whose life is recounted in the TV movie Brian’s Song.

Morris is a writer and editor and frequent contributor to The New York Times Book Review. She is the former editorial director of the publishing company Seal Press, which was acquired by Avalon in 2003 and then Perseus in 2007. As an editorial director, she acquired and edited fiction and nonfiction on diverse topics from third wave feminism, to health, to international politics and travel.

She is the executive producer, writer and host of the 8-part international PBS documentary series Adventure Divas and author of Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for a New Kind of Heroine (Random House, 2005, 2006), which was named a New York Times ‘Editors' Choice.’ [1] As a producer and correspondent, Morris has made programs in Cuba, Iran, India, Niger, Borneo, Zambia, Brazil, Guyana, Malawi and Gabon, among other countries.

She is one of the main hosts of Treks in a Wild World a Pilot Productions adventure/eco/history series and is one of several hosts of Globetrekker (also called Pilot Guides in Canada and the United States and originally broadcast as Lonely Planet)[2]. She is known for her no-holds-barred approach to adventure, her political insights and humor, and her pro-woman sensibility. She has also been a correspondent for National Geographic Today and the environmental series Outdoor Investigations.

She currently resides in Brooklyn, New York, with her partner Michael Kovnat and their young daughter.

[edit] Works

As author

  • Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for a New Kind of Heroine (2005, 2006)

As editor

  • Uncommon Waters: Women Write About Fishing (1991)
  • A Different Angle: Fly Fishing Stories by Women (1995,1996)

As contributor

  • Go Your Own Way (2007)
  • 100 Places Every Woman Should Go (2007)
  • Cuba in Mind (2004)
  • Homefield: 9 Writers at Bat (2004)
  • A Woman Alone (2001)
  • Gifts of the Wild (1998)
  • Two in the Wild (1998)
  • Another Wilderness(1993)
  • Reading the Water(1993)

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