Dec 31, 2009

My Brother Sam Is Dead | About the Author

James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier were born into a family of writers. Their father, Edmund Collier, was an author of children's books, and their uncle Slater Brown was a novelist and the hero of E. E. Cummings's The Enormous Room (1922). Their aunt Susan Jenkins Brown authored a biography, and their cousin Gwilym Brown was a long-time Sports Illustrated staff writer. Their ancestors include the colonial diarist Samuel Sewall and the seventeenth-century poet Anne Bradstreet. Their grandmother was courted by nineteenth-century author Henry David Thoreau.

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