# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/colin-wilson-q368831
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:44:33.049Z

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name: "Colin Wilson"
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description: "Colin Henry Wilson was an English existentialist philosopher-novelist. He also wrote widely on true crime, mysticism and the paranormal, eventually writing more than a hundred books. Wilson called his philosophy \"new existentialism\" or \"phenomenological existentialism\", and maintained his life work was \"that of a philosopher, and (his) purpose to create a new and optimistic existentialism\"."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump