Larry Collins

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John Lawrence Collins Jr (born September 14, 1929 in Hartford , Connecticut , USA , † June 20, 2005 in Fréjus , Var department , France ) was an American writer .

Life

Collins studied at Yale University until 1951 . He was drafted into military service and transferred to the headquarters of the NATO military arm near Paris . There he met his future author partner Dominique Lapierre .

One of her most famous works is Is Paris Burning? (Eng. Is Paris on fire? ), which is about the end of the Second World War in the French capital. With more than three million copies sold, the book became a worldwide bestseller and was made into a film by René Clément in 1966 with a great cast of international actors ( Jean-Paul Belmondo , Charles Boyer , Leslie Caron , Jean-Pierre Cassel , George Chakiris , Alain Delon , Kirk Douglas , Glenn Ford , Gert Fröbe , Yves Montand , Anthony Perkins , Simone Signoret , Robert Stack , Marie Versini , Skip Ward and Orson Welles ).

The duo of authors celebrated further successes with novels in settings from recent history : Or you will be in mourning revolved around the Spanish civil war of the 1930s, the dramatic story in O Jerusalem takes place in the context of the Palestinian War . At midnight freedom deals with the prehistory and consequences of India's independence from Great Britain .

The novel The Fifth Horseman (1980), a fiction about a of Muammar Gaddafi planned hydrogen bombs - attack by Muslim terrorists in New York City , is often in the context of the attacks of September 11, 2001 considered. In fact, the novel “Is New York Burning?” From 2004 makes reference to 9/11 (not yet published in German).

Collins worked from 1959 for Newsweek in New York as a specialist editor with a focus on the Middle East.

Collins died of a cerebral haemorrhage at the age of 75 .

bibliography

Novels
  • Paris brûle-t-il? (1964; English edition Is Paris Burning? 1965; with Dominique Lapierre )
    • German: Is Paris on fire? Translated by Dieter Flamm, Gretel Spitzer and Alfred Paul Zeller . Scherz, Bern 1964.
  • The Fifth Horseman (1980; with Dominique Lapierre)
    • German: The fifth horseman. Dominique Lapierre. Translated by Christian Spiel. Bertelsmann, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-570-05729-1 .
  • Fall from Grace (1985)
    • German: The Marionette. Translated by Emil Bastuk. Bertelsmann, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-570-00480-5 .
  • Maze (1989)
    • English: The Labyrinth. Translated by WM Riegel. Bertelsmann, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-570-01002-3 .
  • Black Eagles (1993)
  • Tomorrow Belongs to Us (1998)
    • English: Khalid: The Sword of God. Ullstein, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-550-08290-8 . Also as: Khalid: The Sword of God; Novel. Translated by Peter Hahlbrock. Ullstein # 25202, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-548-25202-8 .
  • The Road to Armageddon (2003)
  • Is New York Burning? (2004; with Dominique Lapierre)
Non-fiction
  • Or I'll Dress You in Mourning (1968; with Dominique Lapierre)
    • English: Or you will bear mourning: The fantastic life of El Cordobés. Translated by Wolfgang Teuschl . Molden, Vienna, Munich and Zurich 1968, DNB 456287248 .
  • Ô Jérusalem (French original edition 1971; English edition O Jerusalem 1972; with Dominique Lapierre)
    • German: O Jerusalem. translated by Christian Spiel and Ursula Knöller-Seyffarth. Goldmann, Munich 1971, ISBN 3-442-06417-1 .
  • Freedom at Midnight (1974; with Dominique Lapierre)
    • German: Freedom at midnight. Translated by Christian Spiel. Bertelsmann, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-570-02219-6 .
  • The Secrets of D-Day (2004)

literature

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personal data
SURNAME Collins, Larry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Collins, John Lawrence Jr
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Hartford , Connecticut , USA
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 2005
Place of death Fréjus , Var department , France