Overweight, "severely practical by nature," and somewhat distrustful of readers, Helen seems as first glance to be an odd choice to become an itinerant bookseller. Originally published in 1917, Christopher Morley's Parnassus on Wheels recounts the story of spinster Helen McGill, who, having grown tired of looking after her celebrity-author brother, decides that it is time to embark upon an adventure of her own.
Kitty Foyle (1939), a controversial novel exploring the intersection of class and marriage, was adapted into a 1940 film starring Ginger Rogers, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role. A gifted humorist, poet, and storyteller, Morley wrote over one hundred novels and collections of essays and poetry in his lifetime. In 1920, Morley moved one final time to Roslyn Estates in Nassau County, Long Island, commuting to the city for work as an editor of the Saturday Review of Literature. After moving his family to Philadelphia, Morley worked as an editor for Ladies’ Home Journal and then as a reporter for the Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger. After three years, he moved to New York, found work as a publicist and publisher’s reader at Doubleday, and married Helen Booth Fairchild. While in England, he published The Eighth Sin (1912), a volume of poems. Upon graduating as valedictorian in 1910, he went to Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship to study modern history. In 1900, Christopher moved with his parents to Baltimore, returning to Pennsylvania in 1906 to attend Haverford College. Born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, he was the son of mathematics professor Frank Morley and violinist Lillian Janet Bird. Christopher Morley (1890-1957) was an American journalist, poet, and novelist.
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