Callaghan, << KAL uh han, >> Morley (1903-1990), was a Canadian novelist. His works deal mainly with ethical issues and have an urban setting, usually in Montreal or Toronto. His strongest characters are social outcasts who have great moral insight.
Callaghan’s first novel, Strange Fugitive, was published in 1928. His novels of the 1930’s, set against the Great Depression, are his best known, including Such Is My Beloved (1934), They Shall Inherit the Earth (1935), and More Joy in Heaven (1937). In 1951, Callaghan won the Governor General’s Award for The Loved and the Lost, a novel that explores the relationship between innocence and guilt. Callaghan’s later novels include The Many Colored Coat (1960), A Fine and Private Place (1975), A Time for Judas (1983), and A Wild Old Man on the Road (1988). That Summer in Paris (1963) describes Callaghan’s life in Paris in the late 1920’s and his association with the writers Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Callaghan was born in Toronto on Sept. 22, 1903, and died there on Aug. 25, 1990.
