John Godfrey Morris was born in Maple Shade, New Jersey on December 7, 1916. While a student at the University of Chicago, he worked for the campus newspaper and founded a student magazine called Pulse. After graduating, he found a job at Life magazine as a clerk. He worked his way up to Hollywood correspondent and, with the outbreak of World War II, London picture editor. He later worked for Ladies' Home Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Times, National Geographic, and Magnum Photos. As a picture editor, he chose many of the photographs that defined the way people viewed World War II through the Vietnam War. He received the L�gion d'Honneur in 2009 and an Infinity Award for… lifetime achievement in 2010. His autobiography, Get the Picture: A Personal History of Photojournalism, was published in 1998. His photographs taken in France after the Normandy invasion were published for the first time in 2014 in a book entitled Somewhere in France. He died on July 28, 2017 at the age of 100.