Robert Collins

Robert Collins grew up in rural Saskatchewan during the Depression in conditions described in his renowned best-seller Butter Down the Well . He has served as editor of the Imperial Oil Review and has written for Maclean's , the Star Weekly , Toronto Life , and has more recently travelled the country writing major articles for Reader's Digest . His most recent published book is You Had To Be There , a history of his own over-65 generation. Prairie People is his fifteenth book.

Robert Collins grew up in rural Saskatchewan during the Depression in conditions described in his renowned best-seller Butter Down the Well . He has served as editor of the Imperial Oil Review and has written for Maclean's , the Star Weekly , Toronto Life , and has more recently travelled the country writing major articles for Reader's Digest . His most recent published book is You Had To Be There , a history of his own over-65 generation. Prairie People is his fifteenth book. See less