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Langley Collyer arguing with police officers during the removal of his gas meters, 1939. The Collyer brothers made the news again when, in 1939, workers from Consolidated Edison attempted to force their way into the house to remove two gas meters that had been shut off in 1928, and were met with hostility from the reclusive brothers. [27]
Homer & Langley is a novel by American author E. L. Doctorow published in September 2009. [1] It imagines a version of the lives of the Collyer brothers of New York City, notorious for their eccentricities as well as their habit of compulsively hoarding a plethora of various bric-à-brac, newspapers, books and other items.
Unaware of My Brother's Keeper, the photographer-novelist Jerry Yulsman, during the 1980s, planned a novel based on the Collyer brothers, but he abandoned it when he was told about Davenport's novel. Homer & Langley , a 2009 novel by E. L. Doctorow , was inspired by the story of the Collyer brothers, although the author made several changes ...
Langley (surname), a common English surname, including a list of notable people with the name; Dawn Langley Simmons (1922–2000), English author and biographer; Langley Wakeman Collyer (1885–1947), one of the Collyer brothers; Langley Fox (born 1989), American illustrator and model; Lang Hancock (1909–1992) Australian iron ore magnate
Collyer brothers, famous recluses; Collyer brothers (game designers), the creators of Championship Manager; Elsie Collyer, acarologist; see species:Elsie Collyer; Geoff Collyer, Canadian computer scientist; Jaime Collyer, Chilean writer; Joseph Collyer, English engraver; Mary Collyer, English translator and novelist; Robert Collyer, American ...
Paul Edward Collyer MBE and Oliver Charles Collyer MBE, collectively known as the Collyer brothers, are two British video game designers and programmers.In July 1994, they founded London-based video game developer Sports Interactive, under which they created popular video game franchises of football-based sports games, such as Championship Manager and Football Manager.
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Despite the assertions of Langley Collyer & the lazy, non-fact-checking Pittsburgh Press reporter, the Speedwell never made it to Massachusetts; it turned back twice on the way due to a recurrent leak and finally was abandoned by the Pilgrims, returning to England for good.