Christopher Morley
Christopher Darlington Morley (born May 5, 1890 in Haverford , Pennsylvania , † March 28, 1957 ) was an American editor , writer and Sherlockian .
Life
Morley was born the son of math professor Frank Morley . He studied at Haverford and received a Rhodes Scholarship at New College, Oxford in 1910 . There he came into contact with the theologian Ronald Knox and heard his satirical speech Studies in the Literature of Sherlock Holmes .
After returning to America , Morley worked as a columnist and editor of several magazines. He has also published numerous popular stories and novels such as Parnassus on Wheels (1917), The Haunted Bookshop (1919), Thunder on the Left (1925) or Kitty Foyle (1939) (under the title Miss Kitty 1940 by Sam Wood with Ginger Rogers in the title role filmed).
He first wrote in Philadelphia for the Ladies Home Journal and the Evening Public Ledger . In 1920 he returned to New York and worked intermittently for the Literary Review supplement for the Evening Post . In 1926 he co-founded the Saturday Review of Literature , which he directed from 1924 to 1940.
In addition, he organized the 'Three-Hours for Lunch Club' in New York, an irregularly held social event from which the Sherlock Holmes Society of Baker Street Irregulars was to emerge. Part of club life was educated conversation about Sherlock Holmes stories. Morley laid down rules of the Sherlockian Reading and wrote numerous articles in this regard. The best known are his study In Memorium: Sherlock Holmes (1930) and the preface to the Doubleday edition The Complete Sherlock Holmes .
In 1936 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters .
Works (selection)
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Parnassus and Pegasus . (Original: Parnassus on Wheels) Humboldt-Verlag, Vienna; Stuttgart 1951.
- New edition: A bookstore on the move . Atlantik Verlag, Hamburg 2015.
- Kitty . Humanitas Verlag, Zurich 1941.
- Children in a dream . Bruno Cassirer, Berlin 1930.
- The house of forgotten books . (Original: The Haunted Bookshop) Atlantik Verlag, Hamburg 2014.
Film adaptations
- 1940: Miss Kitty ( Kitty Foyle )
Web links
- Literature by and about Christopher Morley in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by Christopher Morley in the Gutenberg project
- History of the Baker Street Irregulars
Individual evidence
- ^ Members: Christopher Morley. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 16, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Morley, Christopher |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Morley, Christopher Darlington (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American editor, writer and Sherlockian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 5, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Haverford , Pennsylvania |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 28, 1957 |