Christopher Darlington Morley was an American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet.
16 Facts About Christopher Morley
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Christopher Morley produced stage productions for a few years and gave college lectures.
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Christopher Morley's father, Frank Morley, was a mathematics professor at Haverford College; his mother, Lilian Janet Bird, was a violinist who provided Christopher with much of his later love for literature and poetry.
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In 1906 Christopher entered Haverford College, graduating in 1910 as valedictorian.
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Christopher Morley then went to New College, Oxford, for three years on a Rhodes scholarship, studying modern history.
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In 1913 Christopher Morley completed his Oxford studies and moved to New York City, New York.
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In 1951 Christopher Morley suffered a series of strokes, which greatly reduced his voluminous literary output.
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Christopher Morley died on March 28,1957, and was buried in the Roslyn Cemetery in Nassau County, New York.
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Christopher Morley edited The Haverfordian and contributed articles to that college publication.
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Christopher Morley provided scripts for and acted in the college's drama program.
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In 1920, Christopher Morley returned to New York City to write a column for the New York Evening Post.
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Christopher Morley was one of the founders and a longtime contributing editor of the Saturday Review of Literature.
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Christopher Morley wrote an introduction to the standard omnibus edition of The Complete Works of Shakespeare in 1936, although Morley called it an "Introduction to Yourself as a Reader of Shakespeare".
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Christopher Morley was one of the first judges for the Book of the Month Club, serving in that position until the early 1950s.
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Author of more than 100 novels, books of essays, and volumes of poetry, Christopher Morley is probably best known today for his first two novels, Parnassus on Wheels and The Haunted Bookshop, which remain in print.
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From 1928 to 1930, Christopher Morley and set designer Cleon Throckmorton co-produced theater productions at two theaters they purchased and renovated in Hoboken, New Jersey, which they had "deemed the last seacoast in Bohemia".