Stories by English Authors

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Bio of Wilkie Collins

Collins, Wilkie (1824 AD - 1889 AD) British author whose writings paved the way for suspense and detective fiction. Collins' pen also produced insightful observations on various social issues of his times including the condition of women. His early successes include The Woman in White (1860), and The Moonstone (1868). The central figure of the latter, Sergeant Cuff, is regarded as English fiction's first detective hero. Collins penned many stories and novels, the most celebrated of which are Basil: A Story of Modern Life (1852), Hide and Seek (1854), No Name (1862), Man and Wife (1870), The Haunted Hotel (1879), The Black Robe (1881), and The Legacy of Cain (1889). His collaboration with his close friend Charles Dickens produced The Holy-Inn Tree (1885), The Wreck of the Golden Mary (1856), and The Two Apprentices (1857). His last novel, Blind Love, was finished by Walter Besant and published posthumously in 1890. Due to their great popularity, Collins' works continue to be published even today.

Bio of Authors, Various

Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859. Sent off to boarding school, he cut his teeth as a story-teller amusing his schoolmates with tales and writing letters home to his mother. He practiced medicine and, in 1900, volunteered as a medic in Africa during the Boer War he was later knighted for his service. Doyle lost a son, two brothers in law, and two nephews to the Great War. He is remembered for the Sherlock Holmes stories and his novel The Lost World.

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