Morris, Charles, 1833-1922
Dates
- Existence: 1833-10-01 - 1922-09-07
Biographical Note
American novelist, textbook author, and compiler. Charles Morris was born in Chester, Pennsylvania in 1833. He began his career as a teacher, and from 1860-1878 he worked for a manufacturing company and started publishing short stories, poems, and dime novels as serials in magazines such as Beadle's Saturday Journal. By the 1880s he wrote full-time and published biographies, histories, textbooks, and compilations of tales and interviews with popular authors. He continued to author dime novels, many under his roughly fifteen pen names.
Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) Identifier
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Boston College collection of Charles Morris correspondence
Correspondence between American author Charles Morris and publishing companies, regarding his requests to use passages from a variety of books. Letters were addressed to and from his home in Philadelphia during 1885-1890.
Collection is open for research.