Christopher Morley





Christopher Morley

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born
in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, The United States
May 05, 1890

died
March 28, 1957

gender
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Christopher Morley was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania while his father was a mathematics professor at Haverford College. Morley graduated from this same school in 1910 as valedictorian. He then went to New College, Oxford University for three years on a Rhodes Scholarship, studying modern history. Arriving home, he headed out to Garden City to begin his life of letters at Doubleday, where he worked as a publicist and publisher's reader. About this time he married Helen Fairchild, and they lived first in Hempstead, and then in Queens Village. Morley moved to Philadelphia where he got his start as a newspaper reporter and then columnist for various publications. In 1920, he returned to New York City and took a job writing the column The Bowl...more


Average rating: 3.98 · 2,350 ratings · 491 reviews · 69 distinct works · Similar authors
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Kathleen
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1918 — 21 editions
More books by Christopher Morley…
“There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”
Christopher Morley, Pipefuls

“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.”
Christopher Morley

“When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.”
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