Duddy Kravitz Essay, Research Paper

Morley Callaghan

Born:?September,22,1903, Toronto, Ontario

Died:?August,25,1990,Toronto,Ontario

Nationality:??Canadian

Genre(s):??Novels, Short Stories, Plays

Personal

Born September 22, 1903, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; died August 25, 1990, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; son of Thomas and Mary (Dewan) Callaghan; married Loretto Florence Dee, April 16, 1929; children: Michael, Barry.

Education

St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto, B.A., 1925; Osgoode Hall Law School, LL.B., 1928.

Interests

Spectator sports.

Career

Novelist and short story writer, 1926- 90. Toronto Daily Star, Ontario, reporter, beginning 1923. Called to the bar, 1928. Traveled across Canada for Canadian Broadcasting Company as chair of the radio program Of Things to Come (renamed Citizen’s Forum), 1943-47. Panel member of radio quiz show Beat the Champs, beginning 1947, member of radio show Now I Ask You, and panelist on television show Fighting Words, beginning c. 1950.

Military

Worked during World War II with the Royal Canadian Navy on assignment for the National Film Board.