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]
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gollark: I IKR, right?
gollark: Well, it's not *recursing*, but heavpoot just sent a name which made it send another name.
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gollark: So any issues will at least be finite.

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.


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