Anne Collins (author)
Anne Collins (born 1952[1]) is a Canadian writer, editor and publishing executive who won the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction in 1988.
Born in Whitby, Ontario, Collins earned a Bachelor of Arts from York University and has held a wide range of writing and editorial jobs in the Canadian publishing and magazine industry.[2] The publisher at Knopf Random Canada Publishing Group and vice-president of Random House of Canada, Collins has also written the award-winning In the Sleep Room: The Story of The CIA Brainwashing Experiments in Canada.[3][4] In the Sleep Room explored the history of Dr. Ewen Cameron and Montreal's Allen Memorial Institute and was made into a movie directed by Anne Wheeler in 1998.
Works[]
- The big evasion: abortion, the issue that won't go away (1985)
- In the Sleep Room: the story of the CIA brainwashing experiments in Canada (1988)[5]
See also[]
- David Orlikow
- MKULTRA
References[]
- ^ Gillian Holmes, ed. Who's Who of Canadian Women, 1999-2000. University of Toronto Press, 1999.
- ^ Gillian Holmes, ed. Who's Who of Canadian Women, 1999-2000. University of Toronto Press, 1999.
- ^ Collins, Anne (1998). Key Porter Books (ed.). In The Sleep Room: The Story Of The CIA Brainwashing Experiments In Canada. ISBN 978-1550139327.
- ^ Mark Medley. "Anne Collins: 'I don't know what you say about years like this'." National Post, October 6, 2010.
- ^ Collins, Anne (1998). Key Porter Books (ed.). In The Sleep Room: The Story Of The CIA Brainwashing Experiments In Canada. ISBN 978-1550139327.
Categories:
- 1952 births
- Governor General's Award-winning non-fiction writers
- 20th-century Canadian women writers
- 20th-century Canadian non-fiction writers
- Canadian magazine editors
- Canadian publishers (people)
- Living people
- Writers from Ontario
- People from Whitby, Ontario
- Canadian women non-fiction writers
- Women magazine editors
- Canadian writer stubs