COLIN WILSON: The Outsider 70 years on

One of the most iconic books of the late twentieth century, ‘The Outsider’, by Leicester-born Colin Wilson, caused a sensation when first published on May 28, 1956.

Colin Stanley tells the story of his overnight success.

Colin is the published bibliographer of the English author/philosopher Colin Wilson, editor of Colin Wilson Studies (a series of books and booklets about Wilson's work written by scholars worldwide), author of two experimental novels and a volume of nonsense verse. In 1989 he edited the symposium Colin Wilson, a celebration: essays and recollections (London: Cecil Woolf), Existentially Speaking: essays on the philosophy of literature by Colin Wilson (San Bernardino: Borgo Press) and, in 2008, 'The Death of God' and other plays by Colin Wilson (Nottingham: Paupers' Press).In 2009 he wrote Colin Wilson's Outsider Cycle: a guide for students, edited Existential Criticism: selected book reviews by Colin Wilson (Nottingham: Paupers' Press) and Collected Essays on Philosophers by Colin Wilson (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2016)

He was the convener of The First International Colin Wilson Conference held at the University of Nottingham in 2016

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