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Biography

Name: Christopher (Darlington) Morley
Variant Name: Christopher Morley, Christopher Darlington Morley
Birth Date: May 5, 1890
Death Date: March 28, 1957
Nationality: American
Gender: Male

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Biography of Christopher (Darlington) Morley
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Christopher Darlington Morley, born in Haverford, Pennsylvania, became one of America's most popular novelists, essayists, and poets. The son of English immigrant parents, Morley grew up in Haverford College and then Johns Hopkins Univer-noted...


Quotations
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Christopher Morley Quotes
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Christopher Morley ( 1890-05-05 - 1957-03-28 ) was an American journalist, novelist, poet, and playwright. Sourced "Lord!" he said, "when you sell a man a book you don't sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue — you sell him a whole new...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Christopher Morley Information
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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...


News and Journals
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The Antioch Review
Christopher Morley, sentenced to life.
03/22/2007: 5,835 words, approx. 20 pages
The relationship between book collectors and the academy has always been problematic. Most professors are either deaf to the siren song of hard-core bibliophily or they have unthinkingly dismissed collecting rare books as a mandarin enterprise too lofty for the reach of professors,...
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American Scholar
On being human. (Rereading).(Christopher Morley's Human Being)
01/01/2003: 4,714 words, approx. 16 pages
In 1936, I read Christopher Morley's Human Being, a book that is, at least for its time, unusual. It's a literary hybrid, the result of a coupling between a pair of more conventional forms--the novel and the essay. I was moved enough by...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Jon Bracker
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In the following essay, Bracker examines Morley's poetic career and traces the influences that informed its development.
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Critical Essay by Richard D. Altick
5,560 words, approx. 19 pages
In the following essay, Altick points to Morley's faded reputation as a writer.
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Critical Essay by Vincent O'Sullivan
3,728 words, approx. 12 pages
In the following essay, O'Sullivan discusses the English literary influences on Morley's writings.
 


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