Callaghan, Morley
Callaghan, Morley ( 1903 – 90 ),Canadian novelist of Irish Catholic descent, born and educated in Toronto. After the publication of his first novel, Strange Fugitive ( 1928 ), he travelled to Paris, where in 1929 he renewed contact with Hemingway , whom he had met while working for the Toronto Star; his experiences there are recorded in That Summer in Paris ( 1963 ), with portraits of Scott Fitzgerald and other expatriate Americans. He published short stories and several novels, and is best remembered for the triptych of novels Such is My Beloved ( 1934 ), in which Father Dowling, an idealistic and innocent young priest, generously but unwisely befriends two prostitutes; They Shall Inherit the Earth ( 1935 ); and More Joy in Heaven ( 1937 ), on the theme of a bank robber turned ‘prodigal son’. These works share an impressively spare and simple prose and narrative style,...
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