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Christopher Collier

クリストファー・コリアー

Kurisutofā Korinā

Aliases: Kit

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1930-01-29 (New York City)
Died
2020-03-06 age 90
Nationality
United States
Languages
English

Career

Occupations
historian, fiction writer, professor
Active Years
1964-2020
Affiliations
University of Connecticut, Connecticut State Historian
Influenced By
Edmund Collier
Influenced
James Lincoln Collier

Education

Clark University
Country: United States
Columbia University
History
Degree: Ph.D.
Year of Graduation: 1964
Country: United States

Awards

Newbery Honor
1974
Work: My Brother Sam Is Dead
Category: 子供向け書籍
Organization: American Library Association
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

My Brother Sam Is Dead

1974 historical fiction

A children's novel dealing with the American Revolution.

American Revolutionfamily division

War Comes to Willy Freeman

1987 historical fiction

Story set during the American Revolution.

American Revolution

Roger Sherman's Connecticut: Yankee Politics and the American Revolution

history

About Roger Sherman and Connecticut politics in the Revolution.

American RevolutionConnecticut

Decision in Philadelphia

history

About the 1787 Constitutional Convention.

U.S. Constitution

All Politics is Local

history

Connecticut's role in the 1787 Constitutional Convention.

U.S. ConstitutionConnecticut

Legacy

Served as Connecticut State Historian (1984–2004) and known for historical novels and nonfiction.