“Read, every day, something no one else
is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day,
something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to
continually be part of unanimity.”
– Christopher Morley
Morley,
a gregarious and well-known journalist, novelist, essayist and poet, also once
noted that “No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as
much as your dog does.”
Born
on this date in 1890, he had a distinguished career, writing more than 100
novels, books of essays and volumes of poetry right up until his death in
1957. He is probably best known for his
1939 novel Kitty Foyle, also made
into an Academy Award-winning movie.
Born
in Bryn Mawr, PA, he studied at nearby Haverford and then Oxford University,
where he began his writing. After
graduating, he started his literary career at Doubleday, working first as a
publisher’s reader. Then in 1917 he got
his start as an editor at Ladies' Home Journal before becoming a newspaper
reporter and columnist for the Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger.
he helped found the Baker Street
Irregulars and wrote the introduction to the standard omnibus edition of The
Complete Sherlock Holmes.
And, of course, he exuded a love of reading, noting, “When you sell a man a book, you
don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new
life.”
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