Christopher Collier (historian)
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Christopher Collier (born 29 January 1930 in New York City) is an American historian. He attended Clark University and Columbia University, and now works as Professor of American History at the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut.
His works include books for children such as My Brother Sam is Dead (1974), which deals with the American Revolutionary War and was awarded a Newbery Honor, and Jump Ship to Freedom (1981); and a book for adults, Roger Sherman's Connecticut: Yankee Politics and the American Revolution, which won a Pulitzer Prize nomination.
He also aided his brother James Lincoln Collier by giving him historically accurate information.His father Edmund Collier was a journalist as were several of his aunts and uncles.His parents were Edmund Collier and Katherine Brown.
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