![]() ![]() When he was sent to the public affairs office of SHAPE, he found himself in Paris, and met Lapierre.Īlthough he went back to Proctor and Gamble, and became products manager in the newly formed foods division in 1955, Collins found that advertising and commerce had lost their charm, so he looked to journalism for more satisfaction. He worked in the advertising department of Proctor and Gamble, in Cincinnati, Ohio, before being conscripted into the US army. Born in West Hartford, Connecticut, he was educated at the Loomis Chaffee Institute in Windsor, Connecticut, and graduated from Yale with a BA in 1951. Sales in the UK, however, were not as high as in other countries.Ĭollins had an advertising background and a flair for publicity. They spent $300,000 researching the book and still emerged as wealthy men. ![]() ![]() For their 1975 book, Freedom At Midnight, about the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948, they took Vishnu Karkare, the only surviving killer, back to India, where he had kept a seedy doss house. ![]() Once the pair had hit upon a subject, they spent freely on research. Collins reasoned that the events, if sufficiently important, would stay in people's memory, and that, given the elapse of time, those who took part in them would be more likely to talk. If he was part of the news-literature duality, Collins leaned strongly on the news side, with the proviso that he and Lapierre always chose as the subject of their mega-earning books topics from the recent past. ![]()
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