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William Wilkie Collins was born on January 8, 1924. He was
the son of popular painter William Collins. His father was a very respectable and proper man. As a result of this, Collins
gained a disdain for evangelistic conservatism. Collins grew a dislike for respectable common religion, and he found himself
a liberal by early manhood. At 22 years old Collins became a law student and was admitted to the bar in 1851. Collins met
Charles Dickens, who became a sort of mentor for him, this same year. Never actually practicing law, Collins took up writing
as his life's profession, becoming the father of Victorian sensationalism. Collins and Dickens became lifetime friends, and
people have continuously compared them. On many occasions, actually, Collins and Dickens have collaborated on their short
stories. Over the course of his lifetime Collins over wrote 25 novels, 50 short stories, 15 plays, and more
than 100 non-fiction pieces. These accomplishments demonstrate Collins' lasting impact as a great victorian writer. Collins
died September 23, 1889.
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