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My Brother's Keeper is a novel by Marcia Davenport based on the true story of the Collyer brothers.Published in 1954 by Charles Scribner, it was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection and was later reprinted as a 1956 Cardinal paperback with a cover painting by Tom Dunn.
The 1995 movie Unstrung Heroes features two uncles whose lifestyle and apartment are a direct homage to the Collyer brothers. The film was based on a 1991 memoir by Franz Lidz, who, in 2003, published Ghosty Men: The Strange but True Story of the Collyer Brothers, New York's Greatest Hoarders.
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.
The book also recounts the parallel life of Arthur Lidz, [75] the hermit uncle of Unstrung Heroes, who grew up near the Collyer mansion. [76] In his review for The Washington Post, Adam Bernstein wrote, "The Collyer Brothers made compelling reading then, as they do now in this short, captivatingly detailed book." [77]
After serving, he returned to New York City, where he scripted for comic books and radio programs. Gold's story "The Old Die Rich" (Galaxy Science Fiction, March 1953), written at the same time as Marcia Davenport's My Brother's Keeper, may have been inspired by the New York Times articles about the Collyer brothers as was Davenport's novel ...
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