Wilkie Collins

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Aliases:
ウィルキー・コリンズ, W コリンズ, كولنس، ويلكى, and 46 others ويلكي كولينز, ウィリアム・ウィルキー コリンズ, Wilkie Collins, W Collins, Γουίλκι Κόλινς, Коллинз, ウイルキイ コリンス, Ուիլկի Քոլինզ, Willkie Collins, ويلكى كولينز،, Wilkī Kūlīnz, Uirukii Korinsu, Wm Collins, ዊልኪ ኮሊንስ, 威尔基·柯林斯, Čilʹki Kollėns, W. Collins, W. W. Collins, 柯林斯威尔基, 維児機 胡林斯, Уилки Колинс, וילקי קולינז, Vilkijs Kolinss, W. Wilkie Collins, Vil'ki Kollinz, ویلکی کالینز, Уильки Колинз, У. У Коллинз, Uilki Kollinz, Вілкі Коллінз, ウィルキー コリンズ, Collins, William Wilkie Collins, Уильям Уилки Коллинз, וילקי קולינס, Коллэнс, Уилки Коллинз, Wiliam Collins, ... Kelinsi, Williyam Wilkiy Kollinis, უილკი კოლინსი, Коллэнз, Korinzu, विल्कि कलिन्स, Williyam Wilkiy Kollins, William W. Collins
Born:
Jan. 8, 1824
Died:
Sept. 23, 1889

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William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright and short story writer best known for The Woman in White (1859) and The Moonstone (1868). The last has been called the first modern English detective novel. Born to the family of a painter, William Collins, in London, he grew up in Italy and France, learning French and Italian. He began work as a clerk for a tea merchant. After his first novel, Antonina, appeared in 1850, he met Charles Dickens, who became a close friend and mentor. Some of Collins's works appeared first in Dickens's journals All the Year Round and Household Words and they collaborated on drama and fiction. Collins achieved financial stability and an international following with his best known works in the 1860s, but began suffering from gout. Taking opium for the pain grew into an addiction. In the 1870s and 1880s his writing quality declined with his health. Collins was critical of the institution of marriage: he split his time between Caroline Graves and his common-law wife Martha Rudd, with whom he had three children.

Source: Wilkie Collins on Wikipedia.

Books by Wilkie Collins