biography
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Wilson, Colin (Henry)
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| lived:
| (1931– )
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| biography:
| Novelist and writer on philosophy, sociology, and the occult, born in Leicester, Leicestershire, C England, UK. He left school at 16, held various jobs, and served briefly in the Royal Air Force before writing his best-seller The Outsider (1956), a study of modern alienation. A prolific author, he has written many books and novels, including Ritual in the Dark (1960), The Mind Parasites (1966), The Occult (1971), Poltergeist! (1981), Written in Blood (1989), Spider World: The Magician (1992), and From Atlantis to the Sphinx (1996). The Essential Colin Wilson appeared in 1984. His psychic interests brought him status as a cult figure in the 1980s, and in 1999 he published Alien Dawn, an investigation into reports of alien visitations and other strange phenomena. |
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