Morley Callaghan

Born September 22, 1903, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; died August 25, 1990, in 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. Religion: Catholic. Avocational 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 service: Worked during World War II with the Royal Canadian Navy on assignment for the National Film Board. AWARDS, HONOURS: Governor General's Literary Award for fiction, 1952, for The Loved and the Lost; fiction prize, Maclean's, 1955, for The Man with the Coat; Lorne Pierce Medal for Literature, Royal Society of Canada, 1960, "for a body of work which will endure"; gold medal of Royal achievement of special significance in imaginative literature, 1960; medal of merit, City of Toronto, 1962; Honorary LL.D., University of Western Ontario, 1965; LL.D., University of Toronto, 1966; Canada Council Molson prize, 1970; Royal Bank of Canada award for distinguished work, 1970; Companion Order of Canada, 1983.