Editing Colin Wilson (section)

{{Short description|English writer (1931–2013)}}
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{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] -->
| name = Colin Wilson
| image = Colin Wilson.jpg
| imagesize = 200px
| caption = Wilson in [[Cornwall]], 1984
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| birth_name = Colin Henry Wilson
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1931|6|26}}
| birth_place = [[Leicester]], Leicestershire, England
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2013|12|5|1931|6|26}}
| death_place = [[St Austell]], Cornwall, England
| occupation = Writer
| nationality = British
| period = Active: 1956–2013, [[20th century in literature|20th century]]
| genre = {{hlist|Non-fiction|Fiction|[[Paranormal]]|[[Existentialism]]|[[Positive psychology]]}}
| movement = [[Angry young men]]
| notableworks = {{unbulleted list |''[[The Outsider (Colin Wilson)|The Outsider]]'' |''[[The Occult: A History]]''}}
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}}

'''Colin Henry Wilson''' (26 June 1931&nbsp;– 5 December 2013) was an English existentialist philosopher-novelist. He also wrote widely on [[true crime]], [[mysticism]] and the [[paranormal]],<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25367040 "Colin Wilson, author of The Outsider, dies aged 82"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160104181122/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25367040 |date=4 January 2016 }}
[[BBC News]], 13 December 2013. Retrieved 15 December 2013.</ref> eventually writing more than a hundred books.<ref>[[Gary Lachman]], ''[[Beyond the Robot|Beyond the Robot: The Life and Work of Colin Wilson]]'', Penguin (2016), xiv</ref>  Wilson called his philosophy "new [[existentialism]]" or "[[phenomenology (philosophy)|phenomenological]] existentialism",<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=zdIC-XAQ-5IC&dq=%22phenomenological+existentialism%22+Wilson&pg=PA9 ''Introduction to the New Existentialism'' {{smaller|(1966)}}, p.9]</ref> and maintained his life work was "that of a philosopher, and (his) purpose to create a new and optimistic existentialism".<ref>Quote from ''[[Philosophy Now]]'', Obituary of Colin Wilson, [http://philosophynow.org/issues/101/Colin_Wilson_1931-2013 here (link)] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160104181124/http://philosophynow.org/issues/101/Colin_Wilson_1931-2013 |date=4 January 2016 }}, accessed March 2014.
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