Educated at Howard College in Birmingham, Alabama, Morrow ran the family hotel business in Mobile for a number of years before moving to San Francisco in 1879. He began contributing short stories to Argonaut magazine and became acquainted with Ambrose Bierce, who greatly admired his work. In 1882, he published Blood-Money, his first novel and one which received little acclaim. In 1887, he began regular contributions to the San Francisco Examiner, a Hearst newspaper, and his popularity increased. Many of these stories were collected in The Ape, the Idiot and Other People in 1897; a work which established Morrow as a master of supernatural tales. Shortly after this, he established a school for writers and his own output declined. His other works include A Man; His Mask: A Romance (1900) and Lentala of the South-Seas (1908). |
Chrysoma Associates Limited
