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Eugenia Collier


Born
in Baltimore, Maryland, The United States
April 08, 1928

Genre
Fiction, Nonfiction


Eugenia W. Collier (born 1928) is an African-American writer and critic best known for her 1969 short story "Marigolds", which won the Gwendolyn Brooks Prize for Fiction award. She was born in , USA.
Collier's collection, Breeder and Other Stories, was released in 1993.[2] She has also published a play, Ricky, based on her short story of the same name. Other texts that Collier has written or contributed to include Impressions in Asphalt: Images of Urban America (1999); A Bridge to Saying It Well (1970); Sweet Potato Pie (1972); Langston Hughes: Black Genius (1991); Afro-American Writing: An Anthology of Prose and Poetry (1992); and Modern Black Poets: A Collection of Critical Essays (1973). Her work has appeared in Negro Digest, Black World, ...more

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Average rating: 3.62 · 525 ratings · 63 reviews · 11 distinct works • Similar authors
Marigolds
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Breeder and Other Stories
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Beyond the Crossroad
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“For one does not have to be ignorant and poor to find that one’s life is barren as the dusty yards of one’s town”
― Eugenia Collier, Marigolds
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