Complex sentence: Barton Wood Currie (8 March 1877--7 May 1962) was an American journalist, book collector and author who acquired an important collection of material related to Joseph Conrad when that author was out of favour in the 1920s.
Split into simpler sentences: Barton Wood Currie (8 March 1877--7 May 1962) was an American journalist, author, and book collector. Currie acquired an important collection of material related to Joseph Conrad when that author was out of favour in the 1920s.