Christopher Morley

American writer, journalist, and broadcaster (1890–1957).

Christopher Morley was a prolific American man of letters — novelist, essayist, poet, journalist, and broadcaster — best known for the novel Kitty Foyle (1939) and the bookish tales Parnassus on Wheels and The Haunted Bookshop. A founding judge of the Book-of-the-Month Club, he was a fixture of mid-century American literary life, celebrated for his warmth, wit, and love of books.

Relationship to Fuller

Relationship: friend. Morley and R. Buckminster Fuller first met in 1934 and remained in close contact — through meetings, shared travels, and correspondence — until Morley's death in 1957. Their bond is the subject of The Sense of Significance: The Friendship Between Christopher Morley and Buckminster Fuller, a book drawn from letters, diaries, and interviews with Fuller, written with Fuller's active participation between 1975 and 1982 and published for the first time by the Estate of Buckminster Fuller.

See Also

• R. Buckminster Fuller (R. Buckminster Fuller) — the central figure
• People in Fuller's Orbit (People in Fuller's Orbit) — the register of figures around Fuller

Sources

• Compiled from general knowledge and corpus mentions; no single work in this corpus anchors this figure.