Colin Wilson

Colin Wilson
Wilson in Cornwall, 1984
Wilson in Cornwall, 1984
BornColin Henry Wilson
(1931-06-26)26 June 1931
Leicester, Leicestershire, England
Died5 December 2013(2013-12-05) (aged 82)
St Austell, Cornwall, England
OccupationWriter
NationalityBritish
PeriodActive: 1956–2013, 20th century
Genre
Literary movementAngry young men
Notable works

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,[1] eventually writing more than a hundred books.[2] Wilson called his philosophy "new existentialism" or "phenomenological existentialism",[3] and maintained his life work was "that of a philosopher, and (his) purpose to create a new and optimistic existentialism".[4]

  1. ^ "Colin Wilson, author of The Outsider, dies aged 82" Archived 4 January 2016 at the Wayback Machine BBC News, 13 December 2013. Retrieved 15 December 2013.
  2. ^ Gary Lachman, Beyond the Robot: The Life and Work of Colin Wilson, Penguin (2016), xiv
  3. ^ Introduction to the New Existentialism (1966), p.9
  4. ^ Quote from Philosophy Now, Obituary of Colin Wilson, here (link) Archived 4 January 2016 at the Wayback Machine, accessed March 2014.