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John Maler Collier OBE ROI RP (/ ˈ k ɒ l i ər /; 27 January 1850 – 11 April 1934) was a British painter and writer. [1] He painted in the Pre-Raphaelite style, and was one of the most prominent portrait painters of his generation.
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.
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.
John Collier (sociologist) (1884–1968), American social reformer, sociologist, writer and Native American advocate John Collier Jr. (1913–1992), American anthropologist, son of the sociologist, and photographer working for the Farm Security Administration or Office of War Information
Fancies and Goodnights is a collection of fantasies and murder stories by John Collier, first published by Doubleday Books in hardcover in 1951. A paperback edition followed from Bantam Books in 1953, and it has been repeatedly reprinted over more than five decades, most recently in the New York Review Books Classics line, with an introduction by Ray Bradbury.
John Collier was a British chain of shops selling men's clothes. Founded in Leeds , West Yorkshire in 1907 by Henry Price , the chain expanded to over 400 stores across the country, most of which traded under the Fifty Shilling Tailors brand.
John Collier Jr. (May 22, 1913 – February 25, 1992) was an American anthropologist and an early leader in the fields of visual anthropology and applied anthropology.His emphasis on analysis and use of still photographs in ethnography led him to significant contributions in other subfields of anthropology, especially the applied anthropology of education.
It is based on a John Collier short story published in the 1951 collection Fancies and Goodnights. The story was originally published in 1940. [1] Written originally for television, the musical focuses on Charles (Anthony Perkins), a poet who takes refuge from the world by hiding out in a department store after closing.