Wilkie Collins
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an English novelist and playwright known especially for The Woman in White (1859), and for The Moonstone (1868), which has been proposed as the first modern English detective novel.
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Born
William Wilkie Collins 8 January 1824 Marylebone, London
Died
23 September 1889 (aged 65) London
adultbasic
Britain
Children
3
era
1800+
Genre
Fiction, drama
Period
1840s – 1880s