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Christopher Morley has 1 past event. (show)  Morley Walk: A Reader’s Tour of Brooklyn August 18, 12 noon - 4 PM Melville House hosts the first ever Morley Walk: A Reader’s Tour of Brooklyn “We visit bookshops not so often to buy any one special book, but rather to rediscover, in the happier and more expressive words of others, our own encumbered soul.” — Christopher Morley This summer Melville House is teaming up with some of the best independent bookshops in Brooklyn to celebrate the legacy of Christopher Morley and bookstores that make our borough great. Christopher Morley was a journalist, poet and novelist, but his most lasting legacy may be as the bard of bookselling. With his beloved classics Parnassus on Wheels and The Haunted Bookshop — both set in Brooklyn — Morley encapsulated the joys of that fair trade better than anyone before or since. Booksellers, publishers, and readers from around the city will be gathering on August 18th to read The Haunted Bookshop in its entirety, and to visit great bookstores while we do it. It’s a walking tour and a marathon reading, rolled into one! We hope you’ll join us. For more information visit Morleywalk.tumblr.com Locations, in order: LARK cafe (with books provided by WORD Brooklyn) 1007 Church Ave. Time: 12pm Terrace Books 242 Prospect Park West Time: around 1pm powerHouse on 8th 1111 8th Ave. Time: around 1:20pm Brooklyn Public Library 10 Grand Army Plaza Time: around 2:15pm Unnameable Books 600 Vanderbilt Ave Time: around 3:10pm Greenlight Bookstore 686 Fulton St. Time: around 4:00pm Afterparty at Der Schwarze Kölner 710 Fulton St, Brooklyn Items to bring: A hat and/or sunblock—it’s summer and we’ll be outside. Friends Something/Somebody to carry all of the books you may end up buying! Refreshments and copies of the The Haunted Bookshop will be available at most stops on the route.
Location: Street: 686 Fulton Street City: Brooklyn, Province: New York Postal Code: 11217 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)
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Canonical name | | Legal name | | Other names | | Date of birth | | Date of death | | Burial location | | Gender | | Nationality | | Country (for map) | | Birthplace | | Place of death | | Cause of death | | Places of residence | | Education | | Occupations | | Relationships | | Organizations | | Awards and honors | | Agents | | Short biography | Christopher Morley (5 May 1890 – 28 March 1957) was an American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet. He also produced stage productions for a few years and gave college lectures.
Morley was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. His father, Frank Morley, was a mathematics professor at Haverford College; his mother, Lilian Janet Bird, was a violinist who provided Christopher with much of his later love for literature and poetry.
In 1900 the family moved to Baltimore, Maryland. In 1906 Christopher entered Haverford College, graduating in 1910 as valedictorian. He then went to New College, Oxford, for three years on a Rhodes scholarship, studying modern history.
In 1913 Morley completed his Oxford studies and moved to New York City, New York. On June 14, 1914, he married Helen Booth Fairchild, with whom he would have four children, including Louise Morley Cochrane. They first lived in Hempstead, and then in Queens Village. They then moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and in 1920 they made their final move, to a house they called "Green Escape" in Roslyn Estates, New York. They remained there for the rest of his life. In 1936 he built a cabin at the rear of the property (The Knothole), which he maintained as his writing study from then on.
In 1951 Morley suffered a series of strokes, which greatly reduced his voluminous literary output. He died on 28 March 1957, and was buried in the Roslyn Cemetery in Nassau County, New York. After his death, two New York newspapers published his last message to his friends:
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.  | |
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