Morley Callaghan who worked with friend Ernest Hemingway on a Toronto newspaper in the 1920’s and was signed by Scribner’s for his popular fiction-writing. His short stories, once compared to Chekhov, were always interesting glimpses into all forms of human relationships. (He was the first Canadian writer to write about gays and lesbians long before those terms were ever used.)
I selected several of his teachable stories for many of my textbooks including “Two Fishermen” and “A Sick Call”. Other strong, memorable ones from his most famous story collection (pictured here,1959) include “All the Years of Her Life”, “A Predicament”, “A Wedding Dress”, “The Little Business Man” a.k.a. “Luke Baldwin’s Vow”, “Now That April’s Here”, “One Spring Night”, and “It Had to Be Done”.