Publisher Thomas McCormack, whose St. Martin's Press brought out three Callaghan novels in recent years, conceded in a 1978 interview that Callaghan may suffer for not being plugged into the latest vogue. "But he is part of the spinal literature of the 20th century that people will remember. There is that feeling in reading Callaghan of being in the real vintage wine."
Edward Morley Callaghan was born in Toronto 22 February 1903, the second of two sons of Thomas and Mary Dewan Callaghan, Roman Catholics of Irish descent. He was named after John Morley, biographer of Edmund Burke. Callaghan was raised in a middle-class home where there was much music and discussion of literature. While attending Riverdale Collegiate, the young Callaghan had his first writing published, a feature article that appeared in the Star Weekly. He received twelve dollars for it.
Callaghan enrolled at St. Michael's College, University of Toronto, where he continued to write nonfiction and began experimenting with fiction. He was influenced by American and European writers. "At the time, I was also reading wildly," he recalled in That Summer in Paris (1963).
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