Journalist and author. Best remembered as the co-author, with Dominique LaPierre, of the 1965 novel "Is Paris Burning?" Born John Lawrence Collins Jr. in Connecticut, he graduated from Yale in 1951 and, after military service, joined United Press International and worked in Paris, Rome and Beirut to become head of its Middle East bureau in 1957. Then moved to Newsweek in New York City as Middle East editor and returned to Paris as bureau chief from 1961 to 1964. Switched to writing full-time in collabaration with Dominique Lapierre; they wrote a series of meticulously researched historical novels that also included "O Jerusalem!" (1972), "The Fifth Horseman" (1980), "Mountbatten and the Partition of India" (1982), and most recently, in 2004, "Is New York Burning?" He made his home in Ramatuelle, France since 1976. Cause of death: brain hemorrhage in Frejus, (southern) France.
Journalist and author. Best remembered as the co-author, with Dominique LaPierre, of the 1965 novel "Is Paris Burning?" Born John Lawrence Collins Jr. in Connecticut, he graduated from Yale in 1951 and, after military service, joined United Press International and worked in Paris, Rome and Beirut to become head of its Middle East bureau in 1957. Then moved to Newsweek in New York City as Middle East editor and returned to Paris as bureau chief from 1961 to 1964. Switched to writing full-time in collabaration with Dominique Lapierre; they wrote a series of meticulously researched historical novels that also included "O Jerusalem!" (1972), "The Fifth Horseman" (1980), "Mountbatten and the Partition of India" (1982), and most recently, in 2004, "Is New York Burning?" He made his home in Ramatuelle, France since 1976. Cause of death: brain hemorrhage in Frejus, (southern) France.
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