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Edward Morley Callaghan, CC
Order of Canada

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, FRSC (February 22, 1903 – August 25, 1990) was a Canadian
Canada

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 novelist, short story
Short story

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 writer, playwright
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, TV
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 and radio
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 personality.

Callaghan was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario
Ontario

Ontario is a Provinces and territories of Canada located in the Central Canada part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest, after Quebec, in total area....
. He was educated at Riverdale Collegiate Institute
Riverdale Collegiate Institute

Riverdale Collegiate Institute is a high school located at 1094 Gerrard Street East Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was founded in 1907 and was at that time on the outskirts of the city....
, the University of Toronto
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The University of Toronto is a public university research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated a mile north of the city's Financial District, Toronto on grounds that surround Queen's Park ....
 and Osgoode Hall Law School
Osgoode Hall Law School

Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, is a Canadian law school, located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Named after the first Chief Justice of Ontario, William Osgoode, the law school was established by The Law Society of Upper Canada in 1889 and was the only School accreditation law school in Ontario until 1957....
. He never practiced law, however. During the 1920s he worked at the Toronto Daily Star where he became friends with fellow reporter, Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short story author, and journalist. He was part of the 1920s expatriate community in Paris, France, and one of the veterans of World War I later known as "the Lost Generation"....
 formerly of The Kansas City Star
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Edward Morley Callaghan, CC
Order of Canada

The Order of Canada is Canada's highest civilian order and is the centrepiece of the Orders, decorations, and medals of Canada. Membership in the order is accorded to those who exemplify the order's Latin motto, taken from Epistle to the Hebrews 11:16, desiderantes meliorem patriam, meaning "They desire a better country."...
, FRSC (February 22, 1903 – August 25, 1990) was a Canadian
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
 novelist, short story
Short story

The short story refers to a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, usually in narrative format. This format or medium tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels or books....
 writer, playwright
Playwright

A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or drama. These works may be written specifically to be performed by actors or they may be closet dramas or literary works written using dramatic forms but not meant for performance....
, TV
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 and radio
Radio

Radio is the transmission of signals, by modulation of electromagnetic radiation with frequency below those of visible light.Electromagnetic radiation radio propagation by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space....
 personality.

Callaghan was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario
Ontario

Ontario is a Provinces and territories of Canada located in the Central Canada part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest, after Quebec, in total area....
. He was educated at Riverdale Collegiate Institute
Riverdale Collegiate Institute

Riverdale Collegiate Institute is a high school located at 1094 Gerrard Street East Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was founded in 1907 and was at that time on the outskirts of the city....
, the University of Toronto
University of Toronto

The University of Toronto is a public university research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated a mile north of the city's Financial District, Toronto on grounds that surround Queen's Park ....
 and Osgoode Hall Law School
Osgoode Hall Law School

Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, is a Canadian law school, located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Named after the first Chief Justice of Ontario, William Osgoode, the law school was established by The Law Society of Upper Canada in 1889 and was the only School accreditation law school in Ontario until 1957....
. He never practiced law, however. During the 1920s he worked at the Toronto Daily Star where he became friends with fellow reporter, Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short story author, and journalist. He was part of the 1920s expatriate community in Paris, France, and one of the veterans of World War I later known as "the Lost Generation"....
 formerly of The Kansas City Star
The Kansas City Star

The Kansas City Star is a The McClatchy Company newspaper based in Kansas City, Missouri, in the United States. Published since 1880, the paper is the recipient of eight Pulitzer Prizes....
. Callaghan began writing stories that were well received and soon was recognized as one of the best short story writers of the day. He then spent some months in Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
, France
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, where he was part of the great gathering of writers in Montparnasse
Montparnasse

Montparnasse is an area of Paris, France, on the Rive Gauche of the river Seine, centred on the intersection of the Boulevard du Montparnasse and the Rue de Rennes....
 such as Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short story author, and journalist. He was part of the 1920s expatriate community in Paris, France, and one of the veterans of World War I later known as "the Lost Generation"....
, F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an United States writer of novels and short stories, whose works are evocative of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself....
, James Joyce
James Joyce

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Ireland expatriate author of the 20th century. He is best known for his landmark novel Ulysses and its controversial successor Finnegans Wake , as well as the short story collection Dubliners and the semi-autobiographical novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ....
 and others.

He recalled this time in his 1963 memoir
Memoir

As a literature genre, a memoir , or a reminiscence, forms a subclass of autobiography ? although the terms 'memoir' and 'autobiography' are today almost interchangeable....
, That Summer in Paris. In this book he discusses the infamous boxing
Boxing

Boxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar human weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds....
 match between him and Hemingway. Callaghan took up Hemingway's challenge to a bout. While in Paris, the pair had been regular sparring partners at the American Club of Paris. Being a better boxer, Callaghan knocked Hemingway to the mat. The blame was centered on referee F. Scott Fitzgerald's lack of attention on the stopwatch as he let the boxing round go past its regulation three minutes. An infuriated Hemingway was angry at Fitzgerald; Hemingway and Fitzgerald had an often caustic relationship and Hemingway was convinced that Fitzgerald let the round go longer than normal in order to see Hemingway humiliated by Callaghan.

Callaghan's novels and short stories are marked by undertones of Roman Catholicism, often focusing on individuals whose essential characteristic is a strong but often weakened sense of self. His first novels were Strange Fugitive (1928), a number of short stories, novellas and novels followed. Callaghan published little between 1937 and 1950 - an artistically dry period. However, during these years, many non-fiction articles were written in various periodicals such as New World (Toronto), and National Home Monthly. Luke Baldwin's Vow, a slim novel about a boy and his dog, was originally published in a 1947 edition of Saturday Evening Post and soon became a juvenile classic read in school rooms around the world. The Loved and the Lost (1951) won the Governor General's Award
Governor General's Award

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. Callaghan's later works include, among others, The Many Colored Coat (1960), A Passion in Rome (1961), A Fine and Private Place (1975), A Time for Judas (1983), Our Lady of the Snows (1985). His last novel was A Wild Old Man Down the Road (1988). Publications of short stories have appeared in The Lost and Found Stories of Morley Callaghan (1985), and in The New Yorker Stories (2001). The four volume The Complete Stories (2003) collects for the first time 90 of his stories.

Callaghan was awarded the Royal Society of Canada
Royal Society of Canada

The Royal Society of Canada , now known as the RSC: Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada , is the oldest association of scientists and scholars in Canada....
's Lorne Pierce Medal
Lorne Pierce Medal

The Lorne Pierce Medal is awarded every two years by the Royal Society of Canada to recognize achievement of special significance and conspicuous merit in imaginative or critical literature written in either English language or French language....
 in 1960. In 1982 he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada
Order of Canada

The Order of Canada is Canada's highest civilian order and is the centrepiece of the Orders, decorations, and medals of Canada. Membership in the order is accorded to those who exemplify the order's Latin motto, taken from Epistle to the Hebrews 11:16, desiderantes meliorem patriam, meaning "They desire a better country."...
.

Callaghan married Loretto Dee, with whom he had two sons: Michael (born November 1931) and Barry
Barry Callaghan

Barry Morley Joseph Callaghan is a Canada author, poet and anthologist. Born in Toronto, Ontario, Ontario, he is the son of late Canadian novelist and short story writer, Morley Callaghan....
 (born 1937), poet and author. Barry Callaghan's memoir Barrelhouse Kings (1998), examines his career and that of his father. After outliving most of his contemporaries Callaghan died after a brief illness in Toronto. He was 87 and is interred in Mount Hope Catholic Cemetery in Ontario.

Morley Callaghan is the subject of a CBC Television
CBC Television

CBC Television is a Canadian English language television network. It is owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. This channel can be also seen on some United States cable systems....
 Life and Times
Life and Times

Life and Times was a series of biography documentary films broadcast by CBC Television, CBC Country Canada and CBC Newsworld. It was hosted by Ann-Marie MacDonald and first appeared in 1996, ending in 2007....
 episode, and the CBC mini-series, Hemingway Vs. Callaghan, first aired in March 2003.

Bibliography


  • It's Never Over - 1930
  • No Man's Meat - 1931
  • A Broken Journey - 1932
  • Such Is My Beloved
    Such Is My Beloved

    Such Is My Beloved is a novel by Canadian writer Morley Callaghan. It was first published in 1934 by Charles Scribner's Sons in New York and Macmillan of Canada in Toronto....
     - 1934
  • They Shall Inherit the Earth - 1935
  • Now That April's Here and Other Stories - 1936
  • More Joy in Heaven
    More Joy in Heaven

    More Joy in Heaven is a novel written by Canada author Morley Callaghan and published in 1937 in literature.The central figure, Kip Caley, was inspired by Norman "Red" Ryan , a criminal who had committed a number of robberies in Quebec, Ontario and the United States....
     - 1937
  • The Varsity Story - 1948
  • Luke Baldwin's Vow - 1948 (reissued as The Vow, 2006)
  • The Loved and the Lost - 1951
  • Morley Callaghan's Stories - 1959
  • The Many Colored Coat - 1960
  • A Passion in Rome - 1961
  • That Summer in Paris: Memories of Tangled Friendships with Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Some Others - 1963
  • An Autumn Penitent - 1973
  • Winter - 1974
  • A Fine and Private Place - 1975
  • Season of the Witch - 1976
  • Close to the Sun Again - 1977
  • No Man's Meat and The Enchanted Pimp - 1978
  • A Time for Judas
    A Time for Judas

    A Time for Judas is a novel by Canada author Morley Callaghan, published by Macmillan of Canada in 1983 in literature. It tells the story of a man in modern times who discovers tablets written by a scribe named Philo of Crete or Philo the Greeks....
     - 1983
  • Our Lady of the Snows - 1985
  • The Lost and Found Stories of Morley Callaghan - 1985
  • The Man with the Coat - 1988
  • A Wild Old Man on the Road - 1988
  • The New Yorker Stories - 2001
  • The Complete Stories (four volumes) - 2003


Unpublished Plays

  • Turn Again Home (based on the novel They Shall Inherit the Earth, produced in New York City, 1940, and as Going Home in Toronto, 1950)
  • To Tell the Truth (produced in Toronto, 1949)


Callaghan was also a contributor to The New Yorker
The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an United States magazine that publishes reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. Starting as a weekly in the mid-1920s, the magazine is now published 47 times per year, with five of these issues covering two-week spans....
, Harper's Bazaar
Harper's Bazaar

Harper's Bazaar is a well-known American fashion magazine, first published in 1867. Harper's Bazaar considers itself to be the style resource for "the well-dressed woman and the well-dressed mind"....
, Maclean's
Maclean's

Maclean's is a Canada weekly news magazine, reporting on Canadian issues such as politics, pop culture, and current events....
, Esquire
Esquire (magazine)

Esquire is a men's magazine by the Hearst Corporation with a strong literary tradition. Founded in 1933, it flourished during the Great Depression under the guidance of founder and editor Arnold Gingrich....
, Cosmopolitan
Cosmopolitan (magazine)

Cosmopolitan, also known as the Cosmo, is the best-selling young women's magazine in the world. The content includes articles on relationships and sex, health, careers, self-improvement, celebrities, as well as fashion and beauty ....
, Saturday Evening Post, Yale Review
Yale Review

The Yale Review is the self-proclaimed oldest literary magazine in the United States. It is published by Yale University.It was founded originally in 1819 as The Christian Spectator, and renamed the Yale Review in 1911 by its new editor, Wilbur Lucius Cross....
, New World
New World

The New World is one of the names used for the non-Eurasian/non-African parts of the Earth, specifically the Americas and Australasia. When the term originated in the late 15th century, the Americas were new to the Europeans, who previously thought of the world as consisting only of Europe, Asia, and Africa ....
, Performing Arts in Canada, and Twentieth Century Literature.

Further reading


Books

  • Boire, Gary A., Morley Callaghan and His Works - 1990
  • Boire, Gary A., Morley Callaghan: Literary Anarchist - 1994
  • Cameron, Donald, Conversations with Canadian Novelists, Part Two - 1973
  • Contemporary Literary Criticism, Volume 3 - 1975
  • Contemporary Literary Criticism, Volume 14 - 1980
  • Contemporary Literary Criticism, Volume 41 - 1987
  • Contemporary Literary Criticism, Volume 65 - 1991
  • Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 68: Canadian Writers, 1920-1959, First Series - 1988
  • Morley, Patricia, Morley Callaghan - 1978
  • Orange, John, Orpheus in Winter: Morley Callaghan's The Loved and the Lost - 1993
  • Sutherland, Fraser, The Style of Innocence - 1972
  • Wilson, Edmund, O Canada - 1965
  • Woodcock, George, Moral Predicament: Morley Callaghan's More Joy in Heaven - 1993


Periodicals

  • Books in Canada, April, 1986, pp. 32-33.
  • Canadian Forum, March, 1960; February, 1968.
  • Canadian Literature, summer, 1964
  • Canadian Literature, winter, 1984, pp. 66-69.
  • Canadian Literature, autumn, 1990, pp. 148-49.
  • Dalhousie Review, autumn, 1959.
  • Essays on Canadian Writing, winter, 1984-85, pp. 309- 15
  • Essays on Canadian Writing, summer, 1990, pp. 16-20.
  • Form and Century, April, 1934.
  • New Republic, February 9, 1963.
  • New Yorker, November 26, 1960.
  • Queen's Quarterly, autumn, 1957
  • Queen's Quarterly, autumn, 1989, pp. 717-19.
  • Saturday Night, October, 1983, pp. 73-74.
  • Tamarack Review, winter, 1962.
  • American Spectator, February, 1991.


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