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Eugenia Collier

1928–

United States

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Eugenia W. Collier (born April 6, 1928) is an American writer and critic best known for her 1969 short story "Marigolds", which won the first Gwendolyn Brooks Prize for Fiction in 1969; it was Collier’s first published story. She was born in Baltimore, Maryland. Collier's collection, Breeder and Other Stories, was released in 1993.

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