My Brother Sam Is Dead

James Lincoln Collier is an American journalist, professional musician, and author of books, primarily nonfiction for adult readers and fiction for children. His literary works include My Brother Sam Is Dead, a Newbery Honor book that was also named an American Library Association Notable Children’s Book and was nominated for a National Book Award in 1975. Christopher Collins is a writer of historical novels for children. Collier has taught at both the University of Bridgeport and the University of Connecticut. He has also served as Connecticut's State Historian. The violence and profanity in Collier's works is very controversial, rendering them banned from reading curriculums in certain schools. Despite the controversy, Collier's book My Brother Sam is Dead won a Newberry Honor in 1975. He has also written War Comes to Willie Freeman, and The Literature of Connecticut History and Roger Sherman's Connecticut for adults.