James Lincoln Collier Summary

According to historian and teacher Christopher Collier, when he initially asked his older brother James to write a historical novel with him, his older sibling was reluctant. "I thought it would be gr... Read more

Critical Essay by Cynthia King Daniel Arabus is a 14-year-old runaway slave from Stratford, Conn., who overhears certain arguments that preceded the North-South compromise on slavery. How he ends up c... Read more

Critical Essay by Joel Taxel [Jump Ship to Freedom] details a young black's involvement in the constitutional compromise that left intact the brutal slave system. War Comes to Willy Freeman det... Read more

Critical Essay by Richard Slotkin The Colliers' War Comes to Willy Freeman, set during the American Revolution, has as its protagonist a black girl whose father dies in the British attack on Ne... Read more

Critical Essay by Olivia Coolidge The Bloody Country is an exciting and well-written novel concerning a little-known episode in American history, namely the conflict between Pennsylvania and Connectic... Read more

Critical Essay by Zena Sutherland Like the other historical novels by the Collier brothers, [The Winter Hero] is fiction skilfully based on fact, and an appended note makes clear which is which…... Read more

Critical Essay by Stephen Krensky [The] past is not always a dusty place with mold growing in the corners, a fact born out by "Jump Ship to Freedom," a fast-paced narrative about a black... Read more