On Jan 8, 2024, at 7:00 AM, The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor wrote: It's the birthday of English novelist Wilkie Collins, born in London (1824), author of Antonina (1850) and other novels, and a lifelong friend of Charles Dickens'.
Collins’ more import contribution to literature was The Moonstone, which established many elements of the modern detective novel and police procedural genre.
On Jan 8, 2024, at 7:00 AM, The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor wrote: It's the birthday of English novelist Wilkie Collins, born in London (1824), author of Antonina (1850) and other novels, and a lifelong friend of Charles Dickens'.
Collins’ more import contribution to literature was The Moonstone, which established many elements of the modern detective novel and police procedural genre.