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Collins, (William) Wilkie
English author of mystery and suspense novels. He wrote The Woman in White (1860), often called the first English detective fiction novel, and The Moonstone (1868) (with Sergeant Cuff, one of the first detectives in English literature). Both novels have been successfully dramatized for television.
Collins was born in London and qualified as a barrister. In 1848 he wrote a life of his father, the painter William Collins, and in 1850 published his first novel, Antonina. In 1851 he formed a friendship with the novelist Charles Dickens, with whom he collaborated on a number of works, including the play A Message from the Sea (1861).
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Brontë
Brontë, Anne
Brontë, Charlotte
Brontë, Emily
Bunyan, John
Collins, (William) Wilkie
Conrad, Joseph
Defoe, Daniel
Dickens, Charles (John Huffam)
Doyle, Arthur Conan
Eliot, George
Fielding, Henry
Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
Hardy, Thomas (novelist)
James, Henry
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour
Swift, Jonathan
Trollope, Anthony
Twain, Mark
Wells, H(erbert) G(eorge)
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