Callaghan, Morley
(Contributed an Endnote) Avison has won several leading awards; two of her books have won the Governor General's Award, and her book, Concrete and Wild Carrot, won the 2003 Griffin Poetry Prize. One of Canada's foremost critics has described her as "probably the most important English-Canadian poet." Morley Callaghan was a novelist and short story writer. He is the author of numerous books, including A Literary Life, The New Yorker Stories, Such Is My Beloved, and That Summer in Paris. He is the recipient of the Governor General's Award and was made a Companion of the Order of Canada. Anne Michaels is the author of the novels Fugitive Pieces and The Winter Vault, and three books of poetry: Miner's Pond, winner of the Canadian Authors Association Award and short-listed for both the Governor General's Award and the Trillium Award; Skin Divers; and The Weight of Oranges, winner of the Commonwealth Prize for the Americas. She lives in Toronto. Morley Callaghan, 1903 - 1990. He attended St. Michael's College, University of Toronto from 1921-5, and participated in a wide variety of extra-curricular activities including working part-time for the Toronto Star Weekly where he met Earnest Hemmingway, who became an early mentor. Although he completed a law degree in 1928, Callaghan's first love was writing. Callaghan's first novel, Strange Fugitive, appeared in 1928. In 1929, he signed with a publishing house in New York to produce his first collection of short stories, A Native Argosy. He married and sailed to France, where he socialized with Hemmingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and James Joyce in Paris. During a friendly boxing match with Hemmingway he knocked out the American novelist, and as a result their friendship was never the same. Callaghan was heavily influenced by American naturalist literature, apparent in such novels as It's Never Over (1930) and A Broken Journey (1932). His most commercially popular book came in 1934 with Such is My Beloved. He followed with They Shall Inherit the Earth (1935), Now That April's Here and Other Stories (1936) and More Joy in Heaven (1937). These books, with their Christian theological themes, complex characterizations, and ambiguous treatment of love, established Callaghan as an important figure in North American literary circles. The war saw his financial success wane, and he began to work once again as a professional writer. He wrote for newspapers and radio in order to support his wife and two sons. He felt that his inspiration was beginning to falter. But after three deaths of close family members, Callaghan once again turned to the redemptive power of literature. In the 1950s and 1960s, Callaghan involved himself in many aspects of writing, including working with the Writer's Union. In 1951, he finally won a Governor-General's Award for The Loved and the Lost. He also wrote That Summer in Paris (1963), a memoir of his summer in Paris in 1929. The war saw his financial success wane, and he began to work once again as a professional writer. He wrote for newspapers and radio in order to support his wife and two sons. He felt that his inspiration was beginning to falter. But after three deaths of close family members, Callaghan once again turned to the redemptive power of literature. In the 1950s and 1960s, Callaghan involved himself in many aspects of writing, including working with the Writer's Union. In 1951, he finally won a Governor-General's Award for The Loved and the Lost. He also wrote That Summer in Paris (1963), a memoir of his summer in Paris in 1929. Many of his books are available in new editions and are studied in college and university courses. Anne Michaels is the author of one novel Fugitive Pieces, which explores the possibility of love and faith alter the Holocaust, with language marked by power, elegance, and integrity. Ms. Michaels, who has also composed musical scores for the theater, has said "when you put a tremendous amount of love into