{"name": "Colin Wilson", "bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Colin Henry Wilson was a British author who had written works on philosophy, true crime, and mysticism, as well as novels. He was born and raised in Leicester, England, the son of a factory worker. He attended school until he was 16, at which point he quit to work in a wool warehouse. He worked other odd jobs, including as a lab assistant and a civil servant, until he was called up to work as a clerk for the Royal Air Force. He worked there for six months until claiming that he was a homosexual in order to be dismissed. In 1956, his first book, *The Outsider*, was published."}, "links": [{"url": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Wilson", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}, "title": "Wikipedia page"}], "personal_name": "Wilson, Colin", "death_date": "5 December 2013", "photos": [6882589], "birth_date": "26 June 1931", "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "remote_ids": {"viaf": "108205029", "wikidata": "Q368831", "isni": "0000000109308974", "musicbrainz": "8a84d097-0915-481a-bebf-3485ed8128be", "goodreads": "9016", "imdb": "nm0933214", "lc_naf": "n79006877", "librarything": "wilsoncolin-1", "opac_sbn": "RAVV051615"}, "key": "/authors/OL29417A", "latest_revision": 9, "revision": 9, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-07-31T21:37:20.600110"}}