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Wilkie Collins
writer
- Birth name:
- William Wilkie Collins
- Born:
- 1824-01-08, London, England, UK
- Died:
- 1889-09-23, London, England, UK
- Professions:
- writer
Biography
On a winter’s day—8 January 1824—London gained the mischievous gaze of William Wilkie Collins, a storyteller who would one day lace drawing-room politeness with plots of poisoned promises and vanished brides. While the city’s fog thickened, Collins sharpened his pen, gifting posterity the gas-lit suspense of The Woman in White (first filmed in 1948), the Raj-soaked sparkle of The Moonstone (screened in 1934), and the tangled affections of She Loves and Lies (captured on celluloid in 1920). Sixty-five years and many sleepless readers later, he closed his final chapter in the same restless metropolis, dying in London on 23 September 1889.
