His father, Frank Morley, was a mathematics professor at Haverford College; his mother, Lilian Janet Bird, was a violinist who provided Christopher with much of his later love for literature and poetry.

On June 14, 1914, he married Helen Booth Fairchild, with whom he would have four children, including Louise Morley Cochrane.

It is bad for the mind to be always part of a unanimity.This quote originally appeared in Morley's column "Brief Case; or, Every Man His Own Bartlett" in The Saturday Review of Literature, Nov. 6, 1948.

[4] After graduating from Oxford, Morley began his literary career at Doubleday, working as publicist and publisher's reader.

[5] In 1922, a candid interview was seen nationwide in newspapers, part of a series called Humor's Sober Side: How Humorists Get That Way.

Morley explained, "Is it trivial or absurd to apply to these imaginary characters the same close attention which is the principle of the stories themselves?"

Barnes & Noble published new editions of these works in 2009 as part of their "Library of Essential Reading" series.

[12] Other well-known works include Thunder on the Left (1925) and the 1939 novel Kitty Foyle, which was made into an Academy Award-winning movie.

In 1961, the 98-acre (40-hectare) Christopher Morley Park[17] on Searingtown Road in Nassau County was named in his honor.

This park preserves as a publicly available point of interest his studio, the "Knothole" (which was moved to the site after his death), along with his furniture and bookcases.