Margaret Wootten Collier

Margaret Wootten Collier (, Wootten; pen name, Mrs. Bryan Wells Collier; December 9, 1869 – January 6, 1947) was an American writer of the Southern Renaissance era. She was the author of the seven volume Representative Women of the South, 1861-1925 (1920, 1923, 1925), and was the official biographer of the Confederated Southern Memorial Association. December 9, 1869. She was the youngest daughter of John Fletcher Wootten, M. D., of Wilkes County, Georgia, and Margaret Marion (Hendrix) Wootten.

Collier graduated from Dalton Female Academy and LaGrange Female College. She did special study of music under Professor Henry Schoeller and Alfredo Barili.

She was a member of the National League of American Pen Women and of the National Society Daughters of the American Colonists; historian of the Atlanta Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (D.A.R.; 1923–25); Corresponding Secretary General of Confederated Memorial Association (beginning in 1917); and president of the Robert Lee Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy (College Park, Georgia).

Margaret Wootten Collier died in Atlanta, Georgia, January 6, 1947, and was buried in Dalton.

Selected works Biographies of representative women of the South