"Marigolds" is a short Story that is written by Eugenia collier in 1969. She reports that she wrote the story during a time in which she was quite unhappy. She won the Gwendolyn Brooks Prize for Fiction for it, and now considers Marigolds her favorite piece of fiction. It has been widely an Authogized and is now used in many secondary school English. classes. It is an account of an incident during the adolescence of a young African American girl, Lizabeth, growing up in rural Maryland during the Great Depression. "Marigolds" is not autobiographical; Collier explains that her adolescence was much easier than that of the story's narrator.