Biography
Haley was the son of Irish Americans John Joseph Haley and Ellen (née Curley) Haley. Young Jack was one of six children. His siblings included three sisters (Kathleen, Ellen, and Mary) and two brothers (William and James). The family left Boston soon after Jack's birth, settling in Atlantic City, New Jersey, before moving to Terre Haute, Indiana by 1930.
Read more about this topic: Jack Haley
Famous quotes containing the word biography:
“A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem.”
—André Maurois (1885–1967)
“There never was a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn’t be. He is too many people, if he’s any good.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
“Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.”
—Rebecca West [Cicily Isabel Fairfield] (1892–1983)