Billy Collins (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Billy Collins was born the only child of William S. and Katherine M. Collins. Collins’s father was an electrician, and his mother was a nurse. Each of his parents was forty at the time of Collins’s birth. Collins grew up in Jackson Heights, a community in Queens, New York City. When he was in junior high school, his father became an insurance broker on Wall Street and, enjoying success in business, eventually moved his family to Westchester County.
Collins recalled his own precocious behavior at the age of four or five. When company arrived at his family’s home, he sat in a...
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