biography
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Morley, Christopher (Darlington)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1890–1957)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Haverford, Pennsylvania, USA. His family moved to Baltimore (1900), he graduated from Haverford College (1910), and he studied at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar (1910–13). He worked as a journalist in New York City for many years, and lived in Roslyn Heights, Long Island. He wrote essays, poetry, and novels, his best-known being Kitty Foyle (1939). As an editor he is credited with promoting the works of Joseph Conrad and Sherwood Anderson, among others, and as a long-serving judge for the Book-of-the-Month Club (1926–54) he influenced a generation of Americans' reading habits. |
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