Anne Collins (author)

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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 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

References

  1. ^ Gillian Holmes, ed. Who's Who of Canadian Women, 1999-2000. University of Toronto Press, 1999.
  2. ^ Gillian Holmes, ed. Who's Who of Canadian Women, 1999-2000. University of Toronto Press, 1999.
  3. ^ Collins, Anne (1998). Key Porter Books (ed.). In The Sleep Room: The Story Of The CIA Brainwashing Experiments In Canada. ISBN 978-1550139327.
  4. ^ Mark Medley. "Anne Collins: ‘I don’t know what you say about years like this’." National Post, October 6, 2010.
  5. ^ Collins, Anne (1998). Key Porter Books (ed.). In The Sleep Room: The Story Of The CIA Brainwashing Experiments In Canada. ISBN 978-1550139327.