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Born: 8 January 1824 Died: 23 September 1889
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William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868). The last is considered the first modern English detective novel.
Born into the family of painter William Collins in London, he lived with his family in Italy and France as a child and learned French and Italian. He worked as a clerk for a tea merchant. After his first novel, Antonina, was published in 1850, he met Charles Dickens, who became a close friend, mentor and collaborator. Some of Collins's works were first published in Dicken
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Recommended & Favorite Authors of Fiction & Poetry (59 person items)"Nothing you can say can convince his false nature of your truth... ~Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White Our words are always giants when they betray us, and dwarf whenever they do us justice. ~Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White"
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