His discovery of George Bernard Shaw's work, particularly Man and Superman, was a landmark. But by the time he left school at sixteen, his interests were already switching to literature. By the age of 14 he had compiled a multi-volume work of essays covering many aspects of science entitled A Manual of General Science.
His father worked in a shoe factory At the age of eleven he attended Gateway Secondary Technical School, where his interest in science began to blossom. Wilson was born on 26 June 1931 in Leicester, the first child of Arthur and Annetta Wilson. Wilson called his philosophy "new existentialism" or "phenomenological existentialism", and maintained his life work was "that of a philosopher, and purpose to create a new and optimistic existentialism".
He also wrote widely on true crime, mysticism and the paranormal, eventually writing more than a hundred books. Colin Henry Wilson (26 June 1931 – 5 December 2013) was an English writer, philosopher and novelist.
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