Eugenia Collier
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1928 –
Who is Eugenia Collier?
Eugenia W. Collier 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 Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Collier's collection, Breeder and Other Stories, was released in 1993. 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; A Bridge to Saying It Well; Sweet Potato Pie; Langston Hughes: Black Genius; Afro-American Writing: An Anthology of Prose and Poetry; and Modern Black Poets: A Collection of Critical Essays. Her work has appeared in Negro Digest, Black World, TV Guide, Phylon, College Language Association Journal, and The New York Times.
Collier's "Marigolds" is one of the most widely-anthologized short stories in secondary-school English textbooks. Set against the backdrop of the Great Depression, the story describes the moment that the 14-year-old narrator, Lizabeth, comes of age. It is the moment she is first able to feel the pain of another human being, and Collier's narrative argues that innocence and compassion cannot exist in the same person.
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