The definitive biography of Wilkie Collins- the Victorian novelist, playwright, author of The Moonstone and The Woman in White, who lived a life of sensation.
Andrew Lycett has a degree in history from Oxford University. After several years as a foreign correspondent, he has been a biographer since the early 1990s. His books include highly praised lives of Ian Fleming, Dylan Thomas, Rudyard Kipling and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Geographical Society. He lives in North London.
Acclaimed biographer Andrew Lycett uncovers a few skeletons in
Wilkie Collins’s closet, revealing a private life every bit as
sensational as anything the author dreamt up in his fiction.
*Observer*
Clean outlines, crystal clear English, and a clear-eyed picture of
his subject... Andrew Lycett’s a terrific narrator... the Hemingway
of biographers… One sees Collins more clearly having read Lycett… A
fine, and pre-eminently useful, biography of the most elusive
character in Victorian literature.
*The Spectator*
Collins’s private life... was as rich in secrets as his books.
Sensible, thoughtful and never less than scrupulous, Lycett is
just the right biographer to assess whether such potentially
sensational material should affect our interpretation of Collins’s
work.
*Sunday Times*
As delicate as it is thorough, Lycett peels away the layers of
deception with which Collins protected himself and shows us the
engagingly vulnerable figure beneath
*Evening Standard*
Excellent on Collins's friendship with Dickens, which he presents,
convincingly, as much more of a relationship of equals than
Dickens's biographers allow
*The Times*
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