Wilkie collins biography books in order
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Wilkie collins biography books in order
Wilkie Collins
English novelist and playwright (–)
Wilkie Collins | |
|---|---|
| Born | William Wilkie Collins ()8 January Marylebone, London, England |
| Died | 23 September () (aged&#;65) London, England |
| Period | s–s |
| Genre | Fiction, drama |
| Partners | Caroline Graves (–) Martha Rudd (–) |
| Children | 3 |
William Wilkie Collins (8 January – 23 September ) was an English novelist and playwright known especially for The Woman in White (), a mystery novel and early sensation novel, and for The Moonstone (), which established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel and is also perhaps the earliest clear example of the police procedural genre.[1][2]
Born to the London painter William Collins and his wife, Harriet Geddes, he moved with them to Italy when he was twelve, living there and in France for two years, learning both Italian and French.
He worked initially as a teamerchant. After Antonina, his first novel, was published in , Col