Background
She was born in Chicago and attended the University of Chicago, the Lewis Institute in Chicago (later merged with Armour Institute of Technology to become Illinois Institute of Technology), and the University of Michigan.
She was born in Chicago and attended the University of Chicago, the Lewis Institute in Chicago (later merged with Armour Institute of Technology to become Illinois Institute of Technology), and the University of Michigan.
Educated privately and at Mistress Starrett’s School for Girls, University of Chicago, Lewis Institute, University of Michigan.
1 son, Justin Herbert Brande (by 1st marriage). Circulation manager American Mercury, 1923-1926. Associate editor The Bookman, 1927-1932.
Associate editor American Review, 1933-1934, now member editorial staff
Author: Becoming a Writer 1934. Most Beautiful Lady, 1935.
Wake Up and Live, 1936. Letters to Philippa, 1937.
My Invincible Aunt, 1938.
Home: New Canaan, Connecticut Address: The American Review, 231 West, 58th Saint, New York, New York*.
Collins was a prominent literary figure in New York and a proponent of an American version of fascism, which he explored in The American Review.
Member editorial staff
Married second, Seward Collins, 1936.