John
Collier
(1901–80) spent his early life as a poetry
editor in England. He wrote many short stories about
dark, frightening events and the supernatural. His most
famous novel,
His Monkey Wife
(1930), is a strange story
about an explorer who ‘marries’ a chimpanzee he has
brought back from the wild. When he was 35, he moved
to the United States where he became a scriptwriter.