Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson | |
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Wilson in Cornwall, 1984 | |
| Born | Colin Henry Wilson 26 June 1931 Leicester, Leicestershire, England |
| Died | 5 December 2013 (aged 82) St Austell, Cornwall, England |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | British |
| Period | Active: 1956–2013, 20th century |
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| Literary movement | Angry young men |
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Colin Henry Wilson (26 June 1931 – 5 December 2013) was an English existentialist philosopher-novelist. He also wrote widely on true crime, mysticism and the paranormal, eventually writing more than a hundred books. Wilson called his philosophy "new existentialism" or "phenomenological existentialism", and maintained his life work was "that of a philosopher, and (his) purpose to create a new and optimistic existentialism".