Callaghan, Barry, 1937- : Barry Morley Joseph Callaghan (born July 5, 1937) is a Canadian author, poet and editor. Born in Toronto, Ontario, he is the son of late Canadian novelist and short story writer, Morley Callaghan. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto.
Brooker, Bertram, 1888-1955 : Bertram Brooker immigrated to Canada in 1905 and settled in Portage la Prairie Manitoba.
He is best known for his landscapes and nudes verging on abstraction, and his abstractions on musical and other themes. He was also a writer who wrote about the Canadian art scene in a column titled "the Seven Arts" which was syndicated to five southam newspapers across Canada, in addition to writing three novels.
He was a member of the Royal Canadian Academy and exhibited with them.
He received the Governor General's Medal in 1936 and the Silver Medal of the Association of Canadian Advertisers.
Callaghan, Morley, 1903-1990 : Morley Callaghan was born in Toronto in 1903 and educated at the University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall. He worked for the Toronto Star, where he met the American writer Ernest Hemingway, before being called to the bar in 1928. He published his first stories in American magazines and expatriate literary journals in Paris, and his first novel, Strange Fugitive (1928), was published in New York by Scribner's, who also published his first collection of short stories, A Native Argosy (1929). Callaghan became part of the expatriate literary scene in Paris when he and his wife, Loretto, spent a summer there in 1929, renewing his friendship with Hemingway and meeting Scott Fitzgerald, Robert McAlmon, James Joyce et al. These experiences resulted in his acclaimed memoir That Summer in Paris (1963).
Between the late 1920s and mid-1930s, Callaghan published five novels in addition to Strange Fugitive: It's Never Over (1930), A Broken Journey (1932), Such is My Beloved (1934), They Shall Inherit the Earth (1935) and More Joy in Heaven (1937), all published in New York and Toronto. He also published two collections of short stories and a Paris-printed novella, No Man's Meat. There was a ten-year hiatus before Callaghan's next books appeared: the juvenile's Luke Baldwin's Vow (1948), the quasi-historical/quasi-fictional The Varsity Story (1948), and the novel The Loved and the Lost (1951).
After another hiatus, Callaghan published four more books: a collection of short stories, Morley Callaghan's Stories (1959), the novels The Many-Coloured Coat (1960) and A Passion in Rome (1961), as well as his memoir That Summer in Paris (1963). Callaghan's last novels include A Fine and Private Place (1975), Close to the Sun Again (1977), A Time for Judas (1983), Our Lady of the Snows (1985) and A Wild Old Man on the Road (1988). His play Season of the Witch was published in 1976, the novellas No Man's Meat and the Enchanted Pimp in 1978, and another collection of short stories, The Lost and Found Stories, in 1985.
Morley Callaghan won the Governor General's Award for The Loved and the Lost in 1951. He received the Royal Bank of Canada Award in 1970 and was named to the Order of Canada in 1983. He died in 1990.
