1. His plays radiated an optimistic faith in God and humanity, evoking, in his words, "a world in which we are poised on the edge of eternity, a world which has deeps and shadows of mystery, and God is anything but a sleeping partner." He said he wrote his plays in poetry because that was "the language in which man expresses his own amazement" at the complexity both of himself and of a reality which, beneath the surface, was "wildly, perilously, inexplicably fantastic." Christopher Fry Harris was born in Bristol, England, on Dec. 18, 1'07, the son of Charles John Harris, a master builder who became a full–time lay preacher in the Church of England, and the former Emma Marguerite Fry Hammond.