Talk:John Collier (writer)

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[edit] Middle Name

I've read several of Collier's works, but never have I seen any reference to his middle name being "Henry". Does anyone have citation for this? In any case, I was considering renaming the page "John Collier (writer)" rather than "John Henry Collier", since all of his published works are attributed to him as "John Collier". If anyone can find a book that is attributed to him as being by "John Henry Collier", I will reconsider moving the page. Johnny Panic

  • Go ahead and do it. I have no idea whether "Henry" is correct, but he is known as "John Collier" and the naming convention says to use the most common name. I've been meaning to do this myself. It was originally under "John Collier" and someone moved it, apparently because they thought the painter was more famous and deserved to go there. Dpbsmith (talk) 17:32, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
    • I had "John Collier" redirect to a disambiguation page... might not have been the best way to go, but it's done now and I'm too lazy to change it back. If anyone can think of a better way to do it... Johnny Panic

[edit] Rewrite

I think I'm going to totally rewrite the section of this page that starts with: "His stories may be broadly classified as fantasies, but are really sui generis..." Hopefully I won't be stepping on anyone's toes by doing that... it's servicable, but it doesn't really grab you and hold your interest the way that it should. For instance, the "Over Insurance" sample doesn't quite do it for me. To give it a bit more verve, I'll be borrowing heavily from Ray Bradbury's introduction to "Fancies and Goodnight", and Anthony Burgess' introduction to "The Best of John Collier".

Oh, and I'll also be expanding the "Hollywood" section.

So, if there are no objections... Johnny Panic