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{{Short description|Canadian novelist, writer, broadcaster (1903β1990)}} {{Infobox person | name = Edward Morley Callaghan | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=CAN|CC|OOnt|FRSC|size=100%}} | image = <!-- just the filename, without the File: or Image: prefix or enclosing [[brackets]] --> | alt = | caption = | birth_name = <!--only use if different from name--> | birth_date = {{Birth date|1903|2|22}} | birth_place = [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]], Canada | death_date = {{Death date and age|1990|8|25|1903|2|22}} | death_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada | nationality = | other_names = | occupation = {{hlist | Novelist | short-story writer | broadcaster}} | known_for = }} '''Edward Morley Callaghan<ref>[https://www.ancestry.com/search/categories/34/?name=edward_Callaghan&birth=1903-2-22_Canada_3243&birth_x=0-0-0_1-0&count=50&name_x=1_1 "Birthday certificate"] Ancestry.</ref>''' {{post-nominals|country=CAN|CC|OOnt|FRSC}} (February<!--see Britannica&Brockhaus--> 22, 1903 – August 25, 1990) was a Canadian novelist, short story writer, playwright, and [[Television|TV]] and radio personality.<ref>[https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/morley-callaghan "Morley Callaghan"]. ''[[The Canadian Encyclopedia]]'', April 2, 2008.</ref> ==Biography== Of Canadian/English-immigrant parentage,<ref name=Thomas>Clara Thomas, ''Canadian Novelists 1920-1945'', Longmans, Green and Company, Toronto, 1946 p. 17-18</ref> Callaghan was born and raised in [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]]. In his youth, he played baseball for [[Canada's Sports Hall of Fame | Canadian Sports Hall of Fame]] coach, [[Bob Abate]], and pitched for Abate's Arlington baseball team.<ref name = "1963 Testimonial Dinner">{{cite news|last=Burnett|first=Red|author-link=Red Burnett|title=Testimonial for Bob Abate|work=[[Toronto Star|Toronto Daily Star]]|page=17|date=April 26, 1963|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-toronto-star-bob-abate/145648327/|access-date=April 19, 2024|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> 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 Hemingway]], formerly of ''[[The Kansas City Star]]''. Callaghan began writing stories that were well received and soon were recognized as one of the best short story writers of the day. In 1929<ref name=Thomas/> he spent some months in Paris, where he was part of the great gathering of writers in [[Montparnasse]] that included [[Ernest Hemingway]], [[Ezra Pound]], [[Gertrude Stein]], [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]], and [[James Joyce]]. 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 novel was ''Strange Fugitive'' (1928); several 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]]. 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 also a contributor to ''[[The New Yorker]]'', ''[[Harper's Bazaar]]'', ''[[Maclean's]]'', ''[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]'', ''[[Cosmopolitan (magazine)|Cosmopolitan]]'', ''[[Saturday Evening Post]]'', ''[[Yale Review]]'', ''[[New World]]'', ''[[Performing Arts in Canada]]'', and ''[[Twentieth Century Literature]]''. Callaghan married Loretto Dee, with whom he had two sons: Michael (born November 1931) and [[Barry Callaghan|Barry]] (born 1937), a poet and author in his own right. 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 at the age of 87. He was interred in [[Mount Hope Catholic Cemetery]] in Ontario. ===Recognition=== [[File: South Glen Road Bridge.jpg|thumb|Callaghan often walked the Glen Road bridge near his Toronto home, as confirmed by a historic plaque]] Callaghan was awarded the [[Royal Society of Canada]]'s [[Lorne Pierce Medal]] in 1960. In 1982 he was made a Companion of the [[Order of Canada]].<ref>{{Canadian honour|Type=orc|ID=238|accessdate=26 May 2010}}</ref> Morley Callaghan is the subject of a [[CBC Television]] ''[[Life and Times (TV series)|Life and Times]]'' episode, and the CBC mini-series, ''Hemingway Vs. Callaghan'', which first aired in March 2003. From 1951 until he died in 1990, the author had lived in the [[Rosedale, Toronto]] area, at 20 Dale Avenue.<ref>{{cite news|title=Following the Footsteps of Toronto's Past Greats|date=30 June 2018|url=https://nationalpost.com/life/homes/following-the-footsteps-of-torontos-past-greats|work=National Post|access-date=23 November 2019|quote=Amelia Earhart, Morley Callaghan and Lester B. Pearson are among those whose past homes have been honored with blue plaques}}</ref> A historic plaque at the nearby Glen Road footbridge summarizes Callaghan's noteworthy writing career and the most significant of his literary contemporaries, including [[Ernest Hemingway]] and [[F Scott Fitzgerald]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.torontoplaques.com/Pages/Morley_Callaghan.html |title=Toronto's Historical Plaques |date=11 July 2016 |publisher=Tronto Plaques |access-date=23 November 2019 |quote=Morley Callaghan wrote 18 novels and over 100 short stories, all about Canadians. Critically acclaimed around the world}}</ref> ====Commemorative postage stamp==== On September 8, 2003, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the [[National Library of Canada]], [[Canada Post]] released a special commemorative series, "The Writers of Canada", with a design by Katalina Kovats, featuring two English-Canadian and two French-Canadian stamps. Three million stamps were issued. Callaghan was chosen for one of the English-Canadian stamps.<ref>"[http://www.canadapost.ca/cpo/mc/personal/collecting/stamps/archives/2003/2003_sept_library.jsf 50th Anniversary of the National Library / Canadian Authors]" {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090923135433/http://www.canadapost.ca/cpo/mc/personal/collecting/stamps/archives/2003/2003_sept_library.jsf |date=2009-09-23 }}, Canada Post, Web, March 28, 2011.</ref> ==Bibliography== {{div col}} ===Novels=== * ''[[Strange Fugitive]]'' - 1928 * ''[[It's Never Over]]'' - 1930 * ''[[A Broken Journey]]'' - 1932 * ''[[Such Is My Beloved]]'' - 1934 * ''[[They Shall Inherit the Earth]]'' - 1935 * ''[[More Joy in Heaven]]'' - 1937 * ''[[The Loved and the Lost]]'' - 1951 * ''[[The Many Colored Coat]]'' - 1960 (reissued as ''The Man with the Coat'', 1988) * ''[[A Passion in Rome]]'' - 1961 * ''[[A Fine and Private Place (Morley Callaghan novel)|A Fine and Private Place]]'' - 1975 * ''[[A Time for Judas]]'' - 1983 * ''[[Our Lady of the Snows (novel)|Our Lady of the Snows]]'' - 1985 (based on his novella The Enchanted Pimp) * ''[[A Wild Old Man on the Road]]'' - 1988 ===Novellas=== * ''[[No Man's Meat]]'' - 1931 * ''[[Luke Baldwin's Vow]]'' - 1948 (reissued as ''The Vow'', 2006) * ''[[The Varsity Story]]'' - 1948 * ''[[An Autumn Penitent]]'' - 1973 (and ''In His Own Country'') * ''[[Close to the Sun Again]]'' - 1977 * ''[[No Man's Meat and The Enchanted Pimp]]'' - 1978 ===Short fiction=== * ''[[A Native Argosy]]'' - 1929 * ''[[Now That April's Here and Other Stories]]'' - 1936 * ''[[Morley Callaghan's Stories]]'' - 1959 * ''[[Stories (Callaghan)|Stories]]'' - 1967 * ''[[The Lost and Found Stories of Morley Callaghan]]'' - 1985 * ''[[The Morley Callaghan Reader]]'' - 1997 * ''[[The New Yorker Stories]]'' - 2001 * ''The Complete Stories'' (four volumes) - 2003 * ''[[Ancient Lineage and Other Stories]]'' - 2012 * The Snob * The Sentimentalists ===Non-fiction=== * ''That Summer in Paris: Memories of Tangled Friendships with Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Some Others'' - 1963<ref>{{cite journal|title=Review of ''That Summer in Paris'' by Morely Callaghan|journal=Kirkus Reviews|date=14 January 1962|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/morley-callaghan-2/that-summer-in-paris/}}</ref> * ''Winter'' - 1974 ===Plays=== * ''[[Turn Again Home]]'' (based on the novel ''They Shall Inherit the Earth'', produced in New York City in 1940, and produced under the title ''Going Home'' in Toronto in 1950) * ''[[Just Ask George]]'' (produced in Toronto, 1940) * ''[[To Tell the Truth (play)|To Tell the Truth]]'' (produced in Toronto, 1949) * ''[[Season of the Witch (play)|Season of the Witch]]'' - 1976 {{div col end}} ==Film adaptations== *''[[Now That April's Here (film)|Now That April's Here]]'' (1958) *''[[The Cap (film)|The Cap]]'' (1984) *''Hemingway vs. Callaghan'' (2003) == Further reading== {{div col}} ===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, 1920β1959, 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. 32β33. * ''Canadian Forum'', March, 1960; February, 1968. * ''Canadian Literature'', summer, 1964 * ''Canadian Literature'', winter, 1984, pp. 66β69. * ''Canadian Literature'', autumn, 1990, pp. 148β49. * ''Dalhousie Review'', autumn, 1959. * ''Essays on Canadian Writing'', winter, 1984β85, pp. 309β 15 * ''Essays on Canadian Writing'', summer, 1990, pp. 16β20. * ''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. 717β19. * ''Saturday Night'', October, 1983, pp. 73β74. * ''Tamarack Review'', winter, 1962. * ''American Spectator'', February, 1991. {{div col end}} ==References== {{Reflist|30em}} ==External links== * [http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/pam_archives/index.php?fuseaction=genitem.displayItem&rec_nbr=106709&lang=eng&rec_nbr_list=103891,106709,156380,103491,99107,136107,202941,102248,140470,181031 Morley Callaghan archives] held at [[Library and Archives Canada]], [[Ottawa]], Ontario {{Governor General's English fiction}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Callaghan, Morley}} [[Category:1903 births]] [[Category:1990 deaths]] [[Category:20th-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights]] [[Category:20th-century Roman Catholics]] [[Category:Canadian male novelists]] [[Category:Canadian Roman Catholic writers]] [[Category:Canadian male short story writers]] [[Category:Companions of the Order of Canada]] [[Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada]] [[Category:Governor General's Awardβwinning fiction writers]] [[Category:Members of the Order of Ontario]] [[Category:Canadian people of Irish descent]] [[Category:Lawyers in Ontario]] [[Category:Novelists from Toronto]] [[Category:University of Toronto alumni]] [[Category:Toronto Star people]] [[Category:20th-century Canadian novelists]] [[Category:Canadian male dramatists and playwrights]] [[Category:20th-century Canadian short story writers]] [[Category:Osgoode Hall Law School alumni]] [[Category:20th-century Canadian male writers]]
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