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Collins, Wilkie

Country/Region:
United Kingdom
Born:
January 8, 1824
Dead:
September 23, 1889
Genres:
Miscellaneous prose, Crime literature, Drama
The British author Wilkie Collins (William Wilkie Collins) wrote a series of extremely successful novels as well as a number of short stories and plays. T.S. Eliot later described his novel The Moonstone (1868) as "the world's first, longest and best detective story". Collins was one of the most popular authors of his time, both at home and abroad. He was close to Charles Dickens and a notorious celebrity famous for his drug addiction and his two mistresses.

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