found: Her The brothers, c1982:t.p. (Kathleen Collins) p. after t.p. (City Univ. of New York)
found: Concise Oxford companion to African American literature, 2001(Collins, Kathleen, 1941-1988, playwright, scriptwriter, filmmaker, director, novelist, short story writer, educator; born Kathleen Conwell, Jersey City; BA in philosophy and religion, Skidmore College; MA, French literature and cinema, Middlebury program at the Sorbonne; professor of film history and screenwriting, City College of New York; first African American woman to write, direct and produce a full-length feature film, The Cruz brothers and Mrs. Malloy; also directed and co-produced Losing ground; wrote plays In the midnight hour, The brothers, and others; much of the published information on Kathleen Collins is unreliable, particularly because another writer has the same name and several sources have blended information about the two writers)
found: IMDb, 11 March 2011(Kathleen Collins (II), March 18, 1942-Sept. 18, 1988)
found: New York times obituary, Sept. 24, 1988, viewed online March 11, 2011(Kathleen Collins Prettyman, film maker, playwright and professor at the City College of New York; died Sunday, 46 years old [i.e. 1942])
found: African American National Biography, accessed December 27, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Collins, Kathleen; Kathleen, Conwell; dramatist, screenwriter, motion picture producer, director, fiction writer; born 18 March 1941 in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States; BA in Philosophy and Religion from Skidmore College (1963); Master of Arts degree in French Literature and Cinema through the Middlebury College program at the Sorbonne in Paris (1966); film history and screenwriting professor at the City University of New York (1974); gained acclaim with The Cruz Brothers and Mrs. Malloy, becoming the first African American woman produce a full-length feature film (1980); wrote the novel, Lollie: A Suburban Tale (1988); first prize in the Sinking Creek Independent Film Festival (1980) and at the Figueira da Foz International Film Festival in Portugal (1982); died 18 September 1988 in New York, New York, United States)
found: Collins, Kathleen. Whatever happened to interracial love?, 2016:title page (Kathleen Collins) title page verso (the Estate of Kathleen Conwell Prettyman)
found: Wikipedia, February 24, 2017(Kathleen Collins (March 18, 1942-September 18, 1988) (also known as Kathleen Conwell, Kathleen Conwell Collins or Kathleen Collins Prettyman) was an African-American playwright, writer, filmmaker, director, and educator from Jersey City, New Jersey)
found: Kathleen Collins website, February 24, 2017:about > biography in brief (born in 1942, raised in Jersey City, and educated at Skidmore and the Sorbonne, Kathy Collins was an activist with SNCC during the Civil Rights Movement who went on to carve out a career for herself as a playwright and filmmaker) extended biography (Kathleen Conwell Collins Prettyman (March 18, 1942-September 18, 1988) was born to Frank and Loretta Conwell. At fifteen, Conwell won first prize at an annual poetry reading contest at Rutgers Newark College of Arts and Sciences. After graduating in 1959, she went to the all-women Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY where a few weeks after arrival, Conwell became the class president. Conwell graduated from Skidmore in 1963 with a BA in Philosophy and Religion. After graduating Skidmore, Kathleen taught high school French in Newton, MA and attended graduate school at Harvard at night. In 1965, she won a John Whitney Hay scholarship, enabling her to pursue her masters in French literature through the Middlebury program at the Sorbonne in Paris. In 1966, after getting her degree, she returned to the US and joined NET, the New York City public broadcasting network. On her own, Kathleen began writing stories. By 1974, she had married and divorced Douglas Collins; had two children, Nina and Emilio; and was working as a professor of film history and screenwriting at the City College of New York. In 1983, Collins reconnected with Alfred Prettyman, whom she had known twenty years earlier in her SNCC days. They married four years later at her home in Nyack, NY. One week after their marriage, she learned that she had metastasized breast cancer) - http://kathleencollins.org
