Edmund Morris, President Ronald Reagan’s hand-picked biographer whose long-delayed book sparked controversy over imagined scenes, has died.

Morris, 78, died in Connecticut a day after suffering a stroke, according to his wife and fellow biographer Sylvia Jukes Morris.

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