They Shall Inherit the Earth (1935) advances another small step: the hero and heroine reconcile physical and spiritual love. The hero, Father Dowling, befriends 2 prostitutes, but is reviled by the world, including his bishop. In Such is my Beloved (1934) the problem is faced directly. The next 2 novels - It's Never Over (1930) and A Broken Journey (1932) - concern Callaghan's perception of 2 apparently irreconcilable worlds, the self-seeking empirical jungle and the spiritual realm of trust and faith. Ezra Pound bought 2 stories for an issue of Exile, and by 1929 Callaghan was publishing in Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Bazaar, Scribner's and The New Yorker, while also working as a journalist in Toronto and Montréal. His first novel, Strange Fugitive, was published in 1928. Educated at University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall Law School, Callaghan published his first stories in Paris in This Quarter (1926) and transition (1927). Morley Edward Callaghan, novelist, short-story writer, broadcaster (b at Toronto d there ).
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