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Person Detail: Christopher Morley

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Full Name: Christopher Morley
Biography:
(1890-1957) Writer, novelist, head of the Book of the Month Club. He wrote 18 fiction titles, including "Parnassus on Wheels" and 16 poetry titles. "Kitty Folye" 1939,"Where the Blue Begins" 1922. His writing studio is preserved in the Christopher Morley County Park, in Roslyn, New York. He is buried in Roslyn Cemetery in Greenvale, New York.
Author's Timeline:
1957 Nassau County
Christopher Morley was interred in Roslyn Cemetery in Greenvale, New York. 
1890 (Unknown) County
Christopher Darlington Morley was born in Haverford, Pennsylvania in 1890. 
1957 Nassau County
Christopher Morley died in Roslyn, New York in 1957. 
1917 (Unknown) County
Parnassus on Wheels
Novel. 
1939 (Unknown) County
Kitty Folye
Novel. 
1922 (Unknown) County
Where the Blue Begins
Novel. 
1919 (Unknown) County
The Haunted Bookshop
Novel. 
1925 (Unknown) County
Thunder on the Left
Novel. 
1918 Bronx County
Shandygaff
Book of essays. 
1937 (Unknown) County
The Trojan Horse
Novel. 
1947 (Unknown) County
The Old Mandarin
Poetry collection. 
1912 (Unknown) County
The Eighth Sin
Poetry collection. 
1920 (Unknown) County
Pipefuls
Essay collection. 
? Nassau County
Morley and his wife lived in Hempstead, New York before moving to Queens Village. 
? Queens County
Morley and his wife lived in Queens Village, Queens, New York before moving to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

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