John Collier

Collier, John

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John Henry Noyes Collier (3 May 1901 – 6 April 1980) was a British-born author and screenplay writer best known for his short stories, many of which appeared in The New Yorker from the 1930s to the 1950s. They were collected in 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 and Paul Theroux. He was married to early silent film actress Shirley Palmer. His second marriage in 1942 was to New York actress Beth Kay (Margaret Elizabeth Eke). They divorced a decade later. He had one child, a son, from his third marriage. Born in London in 1901, John Collier was privately educated by his uncle Vincent Collier, a novelist. When, at the age of 18 or 19, Collier was asked by his father what he had chosen as a vocation, his reply was, "I want to be a poet." His father indulged him; over the course of the next ten years Collier lived on an allowance of two pounds a week plus whatever he could pick up by writing book reviews and acting as a cultural correspondent for a Japanese newspaper. During this time, being not overly burdened by any financial responsibilities, he developed a penchant for games of chance, conversation in cafes and visits to picture galleries. He never attended university. [Wikipedia]

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Fancies and goodnights
Representative edition published 2003
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The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time
Representative edition published 2003
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His monkey wife, or, Married to a chimp
Representative edition published 2000
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Murder Most Foul
Representative edition published 1987
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Verhalen tegen het slapen
Representative edition published 1981
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Blüten der Nacht
Representative edition published 1976
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The Best of John Collier
Representative edition published 1975
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Milton's Paradise lost
Representative edition published 1973
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The John Collier reader
Representative edition published 1972
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His monkey wife
Representative edition published 1969
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Fancies and goodnights
Representative edition published 1965
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Presenting moonshine
Representative edition published 1957
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Selected modern short stories
Representative edition published 1938
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Just the other day
Representative edition published 1932
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Na polputi v ad
Representative edition published 1991
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Fancies and goodnights
Representative edition published 1986
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Pictures in the fire
Representative edition published 1958
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Presenting moonshine ..
Representative edition published 1957
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Indians of the Americas
Representative edition published 1947
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Green thoughts
Representative edition published 1945
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The touch of nutmeg
Representative edition published 1943
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Witch's money
Representative edition published 1940
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Variation on a theme
Representative edition published 1935
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Defy the foul fiend; or, The misadventures of a heart
Representative edition published 1934
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