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Morley Callaghan 🇨🇦

Morley Edward Callaghan (Known as "Morley Callaghan")
Celebrated Novelist and Short Story Master, Chronicler of 1920s Paris
Born Feb 22, 1903 🇨🇦 Toronto (Ontario), Canada
Passed Away Aug 25, 1990 Toronto (Ontario), Canada
Lifespan 87 years old
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"A writer must look at the world with clear, unclouded eyes and write as simply as the heartbeat itself."

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Eminent Toronto novelist and master of the psychological short story who famously boxed Ernest Hemingway and associated with F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1920s Paris, chronicled in That Summer in Paris.

Biographical Record

While working at the Toronto Star alongside Ernest Hemingway in the 1920s, Callaghan began publishing short stories in premier American magazines such as The New Yorker. In 1929, he traveled to Paris, entering the bohemian circle of Hemingway, James Joyce, and Fitzgerald, famously knocking down Hemingway in a legendary sparring match.

Callaghan authored acclaimed novels including Such Is My Beloved (1934), More Joy in Heaven (1937), and The Loved and the Lost (Governor General's Award 1951), celebrated for their profound moral gravity and sparse, luminous prose.

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Mount Hope Catholic Cemetery
Toronto (Ontario), Canada
GPS: 43.7083, -79.3944
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