Biography morley edward callaghan
- Morley Edward Callaghan.
- Edward Morley Callaghan CC OOnt FRSC was a Canadian novelist, short story writer, playwright, and TV and radio personality.
- Edward Morley Callaghan CC OOnt FRSC (February 22, 1903 – August 25, 1990) was a Canadian novelist, short story writer, playwright, and TV and radio.
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Callaghan, Morley
BORN: 1903, Toronto, Canada
DIED: 1990, Toronto, Canada
NATIONALITY: Canadian
GENRE: Fiction, nonfiction, drama
MAJOR WORKS:
They Shall Inherit the Earth (1935)
The Loved and the Lost (1951)
Morley Callaghan's Stories (1959)
The Many Colored Coat (1960)
Close to the Sun Again (1977)
Overview
Morley Callaghan was one of Canada's most distinguished writers. He was unquestionably the first to have
established a major international reputation, which he started building in the late 1920s in the little magazines of Paris and the slick monthlies of New York, where his first short stories appeared. A brief participant in the Lost Generation scene in Paris during the late 1920s, Callaghan returned home to Toronto, where he continued a productive writing life.
Works in Biographical and Historical Context
Middle-Class Upbringing in Toronto Morley Edward Callaghan was born in Toronto on February 22, 1903. The second of two sons of Thomas and Mary Dewan Callaghan, Roman Catholics of Irish descent, he was named after John Morley, biographer of
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Edward Morley Callaghan
The Canadian novelist and short-story writer Edward Morley Callaghan (1903-1990) was one of the major figures of 20th-century Canadian fiction. His work was linked with the development in American writing symptomatic of the 1920s.
Morley Callaghan was born on February 22, 1903, in Toronto into an Irish Roman Catholic family. He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1925. During his college years Callaghan held a summer job as a reporter with the Toronto Daily Star, where he met Ernest Hemingway. The two exchanged stories, and Hemingway encouraged Callaghan in his writing. In 1925 Callaghan enrolled in law school at Osgoode Hall in Toronto and was admitted to the Ontario bar in 1928.
First Successes
Callaghan's career as a writer began in 1921, when he sold a descriptive piece to the Toronto Star Weekly. In 1926 he published his first short story in the Paris magazine This Quarter, had another accepted by transition, and started on his first novel, Strange Fugitive. At this time Callaghan visited New York, and his friendships from th
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Morley Callaghan
Canadian novelist, writer, broadcaster (1903–1990)
Edward Morley Callaghan CC OOnt FRSC | |
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| Born | (1903-02-22)February 22, 1903 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Died | August 25, 1990(1990-08-25) (aged 87) Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
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Edward Morley Callaghan[1]CC OOnt FRSC (February 22, 1903 – August 25, 1990) was a Canadian novelist, short story writer, playwright, and TV and radio personality.[2]
Biography
Of Canadian/English-immigrant parentage,[3] Callaghan was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario. In his youth, he played baseball for Canadian Sports Hall of Fame coach, Bob Abate, and pitched for Abate's Arlington baseball team.[4] He was educated at Withrow PS, Riverdale Collegiate Institute, the University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall Law School. He articled and was called to the Bar, but did not practice law. During the 1920s he worked at the Toronto Star where he became friends with a fellow reporter Ernest H
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