If you have a Kindle or the ability to read the format, there is a free e-book on Amazon called The Exploits and Triumphs in Europe of Paul Morphy the Chess Champion by Frederick Milne Edge, a companion during Morphy's European tour as a teen ager.

Pal Benko. Game. Set. Match.

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Very, and so are yours, dixe

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Dixe, what makes that one better than the other Morphy biographies?

Some books about Paul Morphy or that deal with Morphy in detail:

Paul Morphy: The Pride and Sorrow of Chess
        by David Lawson     
Morphy's Games of Chess
        by Philip Walsingham Sergeant
Morphy Gleaning
        by Philip W. Sergeant
The Exploits and Triumphs in Europe of Paul Morphy
       by Frederick Edge
The Chess Players
       by Frances Parkinson Keyes
Paul Morphy and the Golden Age of Chess
       by William Ewert Napier
 Life of Paul Morphy in the Vieux Carré of New-Orleans and Abroad
         by Regina Morphy-Voitier
The Chess and Genius of Paul Morphy (translation and further notes by Ernst Falkbeer)
       by Max Lange
Morphy's Games of Chess
        by Johann Löwenthal
The First American Chess Congress, New York 1857
        by Daniel. W. Fiske
Twice Remembered: Moments in the History of Spring Hill College
         by Michael Kenny, S.J.
Sportsmen and Gamesmen (1981)
         by John Dizikes
First and Last Days of Paul Morphy
        by Léona Queyrouze, writing as Constant Beauvais
Poems and prose sketches, with a biographical memoir of Paul Charles Morphy (1921)
         by Louis Albert Morphy
Paul Morphy: His Later Life (1900)
         by Charles A. Buck
Psychology of the Chess Player (1967)
         by Reuben Fine
The Problem of Paul Morphy (1931)
         by Ernest Jones

         My own site on Paul Morphy

batgirl, I know Morphy is your favorite player, so you must have read many of the books you list. Which would you say gaves the deepest analysis of his character ?

I've read all of them, some several times. Details of his life are best presented by Lawson "Pride and Sorrow," but the most endearing insight into Morphy himself was given by  Léona Queyrouze in "First and Last Days," which isn't a book but a manuscript about 24 pages long. Queyrouze was young enough to be Morphy's daughter and, as a music student of Morphy's mother, Telcide, and a friend of the family, came to know Morphy only when he was older, but she became very close to him.

To get an idea of her writing, here is the first page of her manuscript:

   He was once young, handsome and wealthy;  wooed by women,  flattered by men, lionized by all, and courted by sovereigns who deemed it an honor to be vanquished by him.  ____    Who? That small, slender man, wandering aimlessly through the streets of New Orleans, with incoherent gestures, and muttering strange words to himself, with an unfrequent, sarcastic smile? Yes; he was once a king, that frail-looking man, gliding with light, elastic steps through the crowd gathered on Canal Street, the great fashionable avenue which marks the limit between the Creole and American quarters.
   Insane, did you say? Insane? That may be, if you are sure of not being yourself more or less demented, you one of this senseless, grinning multitude. Watch him well. He bows to someone. Have you noticed how gracious his smile can be? He has stopped abruptly at the corner of Royal street, and there he stands abstractedly, wrapped up in his thoughts, totally unconscious of the surrounding noise and excitement, and heedless of that ever renewed human current which sweeps past him. He leans back against the wall; and his deep, scrutinizing gaze is intently fixed upon some object invisible to us. No other eyes but his, can perceive the mysterious things that strike his mind's vision. The keen profile of his emaciated face, wearing the pallid hue of meditation, stands in relief on the brown wall and looks like an ancient ivory carving. His fine, nervous hand holds a light cane, with which he draws geometrical figures on the pavement around him.
   What do they mean, you ask? Surely no one could tell, except himself, the wonderful man whose marvelous memory could once simultaneously retain the strategy of eight or eleven chess-boards without his casting a single glance upon them; and whose unrivalled genius transported the world with such admiration, that the title of "Chess-King" was universally and with one voice bestowed upon him forever.
   There he stands, isolated as if he had drawn a magical circle about him. See how his glance brightens. All at once he ceases his moves, as though he had at last found the long sought for solution of some problem, known to him alone. He puts his glasses on and lifts a more animated look to the throngs of women passing by, attired in their fresh summer dresses. He has started again, walking with the same peculiar and characteristic elasticity of gait.
   Now he shakes his head with an expression of discontent. Shrugging his slight shoulders, he hastens away, evidently disappointed; and the habitual weary look again darkens his countenance. He clinches his hands convulsively, speaking aloud this time. Mark the harsh, bitter laugh which distends his pale lips, displaying the beautiful white teeth, whose gleam unexpectedly illumines the faded features with a
fugitive reflection of youth.
   Once more he turned to cast a withering glance, full of unutterable contempt,
upon the crowd, among which several persons point at him derisively.  -  Did you hear what he said? "Que ces gens la sout têtes! (How stupid those people are!)"
   He has gone now, and disappeared from the sight of those women who untiringly smile that bland, meaningless smile which is a part of their dress, like their conventional, chronic laugh. He hurries away from those and others who stare at him haughtily, with rigid faces upon which self-consciousness is indelibly stamped. Far better does his country-woman know who is that newly imported, foreign fop, thrown over by fortune's wheel on this side of the ocean, with perhaps a problematic title before his name, than who is that unassuming man with the simple and exquisite manners of a genuine grand seigneur. Some of them even think that he looks rather funny.
   Upon leaving Canal Street and it's ordinary monotonous exhibition, he wends his way down in the direction of the Carré, the Creole city. He cuts across another human wave, that bragging, boisterous assemblage of business-men issuing from the bar-rooms situated on his road. There meet Americans with ruddy cheeks and fair hair; Creoles with pale faces and dark, flashing eyes, and many of those commercial parvenus, with thick, confident laughter and heavy wit, gentlemen by the right of the purse.
   Whither is he going, with that supremely scornful and weary air?

Fantastic portrait... and thank you for the link to your chess journal with her biography. There are so many unrewarded talents on this planet...especially erudites, totally forgotten.

I bought Lawson's biography a few days ago, so I did well.

Batgirl,

Have you seen the book Paul Morphy: A Collection of His Games With Detailed Notes by Geza Maroczy, and if so, what you think of it? The reason I ask is it's one of the e+chess offerings.

http://eplusbooks.com/books/18-paul-morphy-a-collection-of-his-games-maroczy-trans-sherwood

A friend of mine purchased that book when we were creating a database of Morphy's games.   Since I can't read German, I never bothered with it personally. This translation looks quite appealing (I'd never seen a translation before).  Maroczy was very interested in Morphy and very knowledgable. Anything he wrote on the subject is definitely worth reading. 

Joel Benjamin, American Grandmaster. Honest takes on the US chess scene and players in the 80s and 90s. Who can forget Rustam Kamsky...and where is he now, we need him so...

Thanks for the positive feedback!

Recommendation seconded - Chess Duels: My Games with the World Champions is full of unique biographical gems and personal observations. It gets good reviews on Amazon, and I found it immensely entertaining.

http://www.amazon.com/Chess-Duels-Games-World-Champions/dp/1857445872

Has anyone read Walter Browne's autobiography?