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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 ...
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.
Collier was from a talented and successful family. His grandfather, John Collier, was a Quaker merchant who became a member of parliament. His father, Robert, ( was a member of parliament, Attorney General and, for many years, a full-time judge of the Privy Council) was created the first Lord Monkswell.He was also a member of the Royal Society of British Artists, and had artists' studios in ...
May 14, 2018 · John Collier. John Collier (1884-1968) was a proponent of American Indian culture. His appointment as Commisioner of Indian Affairs helped shape federal policy toward Native Americans, especially through the Indian Reorganization Act.. A lifelong proponent of social reform, John Collier first became involved in the fight to preserve American Indian culture in the early 1920s, after spending ...
Obituary in The Times 12th April 1934.Stories In Pictures.The case of the Hon John Collier, who died yesterday at his home at Hampstead at the age of 84, warns us against narrowness in our definition of art. By some schools of opinion he would not be regarded as an artist at all. On the whole it seems wiser to regard him as an extreme instance of an artist for who art is primarily, if not ...
John Collier. Writer: The Twilight Zone. British novelist, poet and occasional screenwriter, John Henry Noyes Collier was best known as the author of macabre or bizarre short stories with trick endings, akin to those of Roald Dahl. The most widely read of these were published under the title "Fancies and Goodnights" in 1951, winning Collier the inaugural International Fantasy Award and an ...
John Collier. Writer: The Twilight Zone. British novelist, poet and occasional screenwriter, John Henry Noyes Collier was best known as the author of macabre or bizarre short stories with trick endings, akin to those of Roald Dahl. The most widely read of these were published under the title "Fancies and Goodnights" in 1951, winning Collier the inaugural International Fantasy Award and an ...
John Collier has 306 books on Goodreads with 41073 ratings. John Collier’s most popular book is Fancies and Goodnights.
John Maler Collier was a leading English painter and writer. He painted in the Pre-Raphaelite style, and was one of the most prominent portrait painters of his generation.
Biography. John Collier was perhaps best known as a painter of society portraits and dramatic depictions of figures from ancient history, such as Clytemnestra (RA 1882) and A glass of wine with Caesar Borgia (RA 1893); he exhibited his work at the Royal Academy for sixty years, as well as contributing to exhibitions at the Grosvenor Gallery until it's untimely demise in 1890.
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