The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

For most of his life he lived in Roslyn Estates Nassau County Long Island commuting to the city on the Long Island Rail Road about which he wrote affectionately. Out of enthusiasm for the Sherlock Holmes stories he helped to found the Baker Street Irregulars and wrote the introduction to the standard omnibus edition of The Complete Sherlock Holmes. On 14 June 1914 he married Helen Booth Fairchild with whom he would have four children including Louise Morley Cochrane.

He also produced stage productions for a few years and gave college lectures. Christopher Morley (May 5 1890 – March 28 1957) was an American journalist novelist essayist and poet.