John collier author biography
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Forgotten authors No. 34: John Collier
For those of a certain age, John Collier was simply "the öppning to watch", as the TV commercials for the menswear store proclaimed. The other John Collier fryst vatten the English writer, born in 1901, who became famous for his wonderful short stories. Setting out to be a poet, Collier was disappointed with the result and instead produced a strange novel, His Monkey Wife, a satire about an explorer who marries a chimpanzee. Two more novels followed, now both forgotten, but around them formed a body of uniquely sardonic short stories, often written for The New Yorker magazine. They were collected in many volumes, one of which, Fancies and Goodnights, was reprinted in 2003.
In some ways, Collier feels like a natural successor to Saki. His simple, skarp style brought his tales colourfully to life. "The Devil, George, and Rosie" starts: "There was a young man who was invariably förkastad by the girls, not because he smelt at all bad but because he happened t
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John Collier (sociologist)
American government official (1884–1968)
John Collier (May 4, 1884 – May 8, 1968), a sociologist and writer, was an American social reformer and Native American advocate. He served as Commissioner for the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the President Franklin D. Roosevelt administration, from 1933 to 1945. He was chiefly responsible for the "Indian New Deal", especially the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, through which he intended to reverse a long-standing policy of cultural assimilation of Native Americans.
During the second World War, in part due to his position in the BIA, Collier also became involved with the incarceration of Japanese Americans at the Poston War Relocation Center and desired greater involvement at the Gila River War Relocation Center.
Collier was instrumental in ending the loss of reservations lands held by Indians, and in enabling many tribal nations to re-institute self-government and preserve their traditional culture. Som
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John Collier (fiction writer)
British writer
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| Born | John Henry Noyes Collier (1901-05-03)3 May 1901 London, England |
| Died | 6 April 1980(1980-04-06) (aged 78) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
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John Henry Noyes Collier (3 May 1901 – 6 April 1980) was a British-born writer and screenwriter best known for his short stories, many of which appeared in The New Yorker from the 1930s to the '50s. Most were collected in The John Collier Reader (Knopf, 1972); earlier collections include a 1951 volume, Fancies and Goodnights, which won the International Fantasy Award and remains in print. Individual stories are frequently anthologized in fantasy collections. John Collier's writing has been praised by authors such as Anthony Burgess, Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl, Neil Gaiman, Michael Chabon, Wyndham Lewis, and Paul Theroux.[citation needed] He appears to have given few interviews in his life; those inc