Morais, the youngest of four sons, was born in Lisbon, Portugal, to an American mother and Canadian father of Portuguese descent.
[4] In 1983, Morais married Susan Agar, another Sarah Lawrence College graduate then working at PBS, and they moved to Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn.
[5] A Forbes cover story he wrote in 1986 about the Parisian fashion and business mogul, Pierre Cardin, led to a book contract with Bantam Press.
Morais left Forbes in 1988 and moved with his wife to Paris to research the unauthorized biography, Pierre Cardin: The Man Who Became a Label, which was published in the U.K. in 1991.
[10][11] The film was directed by Lasse Hallström and stars Dame Helen Mirren, Om Puri, Manish Dayal, and Charlotte Le Bon.