parnassus on wheels by christopher morley

Kitty Foyle (1939), a controversial novel exploring the intersection of class and marriage, was adapted into a 1940 film starring Ginger Rogers, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role. A gifted humorist, poet, and storyteller, Morley wrote over one hundred novels and collections of essays and poetry in his lifetime. In 1920, Morley moved one final time to Roslyn Estates in Nassau County, Long Island, commuting to the city for work as an editor of the Saturday Review of Literature. After moving his family to Philadelphia, Morley worked as an editor for Ladies’ Home Journal and then as a reporter for the Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger.

After three years, he moved to New York, found work as a publicist and publisher’s reader at Doubleday, and married Helen Booth Fairchild. While in England, he published The Eighth Sin (1912), a volume of poems. Upon graduating as valedictorian in 1910, he went to Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship to study modern history. In 1900, Christopher moved with his parents to Baltimore, returning to Pennsylvania in 1906 to attend Haverford College. Born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, he was the son of mathematics professor Frank Morley and violinist Lillian Janet Bird. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.Christopher Morley (1890-1957) was an American journalist, poet, and novelist. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. His obituaries were published with the following message, written by Morley himself: “Read, every day, something no one else is reading. A collection of his papers is archived at Stony Brook University. The memorial Christopher Morley Park in Roslyn maintains the cabin in which he wrote his later work. He died on Long Island and is buried at Roslyn Cemetery in Roslyn, New York. He also helped edit the 11th and 12th editions of Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations (19). Morley served as editor of the Ladies Home Journal and as a columnist for the Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger and was founding editor of the Saturday Review of Literature. Morley published more than 100 books, articles, and essays during his lifetime, including the poetry collections The Eighth Sin (1912) and The Old Mandarin: More Translations From the Chinese (1947), the essay collections Shandygaff (1918) and Pipefuls (1920), and the novels Parnassus on Wheels (1917), The Haunted Bookshop (1919), The Trojan Horse (1937), and the bestselling Kitty Foyle (1939), which was made into a film. Morley earned a BA at Haverford College and studied for three years at Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar.

He moved with his family to Baltimore in 1900. Novelist, essayist, theater producer, and poet Christopher Morley was born in Haverford, Pennsylvania, the son of a mathematics professor and a poet-musician.

Parnassus on wheels by christopher morley