From his first work to his version of Paradise Lost, Collier saw humans, flawed but with potential, everywhere contaminated by narrow creeds, institutions, coteries, vanities, and careers. Collier particularly admired Jonathan Swift, and an 18th-century satirist's view of life became his own. An uncle, Vincent Collier, himself a minor novelist, introduced the boy to 17th and 18th century literature. He began reading Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales at three these began a lifelong interest in myth and legend that was further stimulated when, in his teens, he discovered James Frazer's The Golden Bough (1890-1915). He was privately educated by his uncle Vincent Collier, a novelist. Nor could John George afford schooling for his son beyond prep school John Collier and Kathleen were educated at home. His father, John George Collier, was one of seventeen children, and could not afford formal education he worked as a clerk. He had one sister, Kathleen Mars Collier. He appears to have given few interviews in his life those include conversations with biographer Betty Richardson, Tom Milne, and Max Wilk.īorn in London in 1901, John Collier was the son of John George and Emily Mary Noyes Collier. 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. Individual stories are frequently anthologized in fantasy collections. 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. John Henry Noyes Collier ( – 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 1950s.
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