Christopher Morley biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Christopher Morley

Author Name:

Christopher Morley

Born As:

Other Names:

Born:

05 May 1890

Died:

28 Mar 1957




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Journalist, novelist, essayist and poet                          
Selected Works:

Parnassus on Wheels - novel, 1917
Shandygaff - book of essays, 1918
The Haunted Bookshop - novel, 1919
Thunder on the Left - novel, 1925
Off the Deep End - collection of essays, 1928, illustrated by John Alan Maxwell

Seacoast of Bohemia - "History of four infatuated adventurers, Morley, Cleon Throckmorton, Conrad Milliken and Harry Wagstaff Gribble, who rediscovered the Old Rialto Theatre in Hoboken, and refurnished it", 1929, illustrated by John Alan Maxwell

The Trojan Horse - novel, 1937
Kitty Foyle - novel, 1939
The Old Mandarin - book of poetry, 1947.                          
                          
Founder of the Baker Street Irregulars and wrote the introduction to the standard omnibus edition of The Complete Sherlock Holmes.

Edited two editions of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations: 1937 - 11th and 1948 - 12th.

One of the first judges for the Book-of-the Month Club, serving in that position until the early 1950s.

Was the mainstay of what he dubbed the "Three Hours for Lunch Club".