John Collier

John Collier 1884-1968, American social worker, anthropologist, and author, educated at Columbia and the Collège de France. After holding several positions in community organization and social work training, he became active in Native American affairs in 1922. Collier was editor of the magazine American Indian Life from 1926 until 1933, when he was appointed commissioner of Indian Affairs, a position he held for 12 years. In addition to works in verse, he wrote Indians of the Americas (1947) and On the Gleaming Way (1962, orig. pub. 1949 as Patterns and Ceremonials of the Indians of the Southwest ).

Collier, John (1901–80), was a poetry editor of Time and Tide during the 1920s and 1930s, but is remembered as a writer of fantastic stories combining satire with the macabre and the supernatural. His best-known novel is His Monkey Wife (1930), describing the marriage between a repatriated explorer and his pet chimpanzee. In 1935 he moved to the US and made his living as a screenwriter in Hollywood.