Dorothea Brande
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Dorothea Brande was a well-respected writer and editor in New York.
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
. Her book Becoming a Writer, published in 1934, is still in print and offers advice for beginning and sustaining any writing enterprise. She also wrote Wake Up and Live
, published in 1936, which sold over two million copies. It was made into a musical by Twentieth Century Fox in 1937.
While she was serving as associate editor of The American Review
in 1936, she married that journal's owner and editor, Seward Collins
. 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.
Dorothea Collins died in New Hampshire.
She was born in Chicago and attended the University of Chicago
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
, the Lewis Institute in Chicago (later merged with Armour Institute of Technology to become Illinois Institute of Technology
Illinois Institute of Technology
Illinois Institute of Technology, commonly called Illinois Tech or IIT, is a private Ph.D.-granting university located in Chicago, Illinois, with programs in engineering, science, psychology, architecture, business, communications, industrial technology, information technology, design, and law...
), and the University of Michigan
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
. Her book Becoming a Writer, published in 1934, is still in print and offers advice for beginning and sustaining any writing enterprise. She also wrote Wake Up and Live
Wake Up and Live
Wake Up and Live is a 1937 Fox musical film directed by Sidney Lanfield and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck. The movie stars Walter Winchell, Ben Bernie and Alice Faye and was based upon the self-help bestseller by Dorothea Brande...
, published in 1936, which sold over two million copies. It was made into a musical by Twentieth Century Fox in 1937.
While she was serving as associate editor of The American Review
The American Review
- 19th century :The American Review, alternatively known as The American Review: A Whig Journal and The American Whig Review, was a New York City-based periodical in the 19th century...
in 1936, she married that journal's owner and editor, Seward Collins
Seward Collins
Seward Bishop Collins was an American New York socialite and publisher. By the end of the 1920s, he was a self-described "fascist".-Biography:...
. Collins was a prominent literary figure in New York and a proponent of an American version of fascism
Fascism
Fascism is a radical authoritarian nationalist political ideology. Fascists seek to rejuvenate their nation based on commitment to the national community as an organic entity, in which individuals are bound together in national identity by suprapersonal connections of ancestry, culture, and blood...
, which he explored in The American Review.
Dorothea Collins died in New Hampshire.