[2] 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.
[2] As his father was a diplomat who was named the Minister to Sweden (1914–1923), the younger Morris was raised abroad.
[2] Morris wrote both fiction and non-fiction works which focused on international politics and Americans living abroad.
[1] They founded the Edita and Ira Morris Hiroshima Foundation for Peace and Culture which assisted victims of the bombings.
[3] 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).