Sylvia Jukes Morris was born on May 24, 1935 in Dudley, Birmingham, England, UK. She was married to Edmund Morris. She died on January 5, 2020 in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, England, UK.
She wrote acclaimed biographies of US first lady Edith Roosevelt and playwright-diplomat Clare Boothe Luce.
She won a scholarship to a girl's high school, and was praised for her senior thesis, which was read by historian A.J.P. Taylor, and traced the 19th-century deaths of local children to issues with the town's sewage system. She attended the University of London but dropped out.