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Price Collier
1860–1913
An American writer and former Unitarian minister, he became known for sharp, lively books comparing national character across the United States, England, Germany, and the East. His work mixed travel, social observation, and opinion in a way that made him a widely read commentator of the early 1900s.
2 Audiobooks
Riding and Driving
by Edward L. (Edward Lowell) Anderson, Price Collier
Germany and the Germans from an American Point of View
by Price Collier
About the author
Born in Davenport, Iowa, on May 25, 1860, he spent part of his boyhood in Switzerland and England. He studied at Leipzig and later earned a B.D. from Harvard Divinity School in 1882 before entering the Unitarian ministry.
He left the ministry in 1891 and turned to writing. Reference sources from the period describe him as best known for books such as America and the Americans from the French Point of View (1896), England and the English from an American Point of View (1909), The West in the East from an American Point of View (1911), and Germany and the Germans from an American Point of View (1913). These works made him a recognizable voice in transatlantic cultural commentary.
Collier died on November 3, 1913, on the island of Funen in Denmark. Some later biographical sources also note that he was the father of Katharine Price Collier St. George, who went on to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives.