What is Colin Wilson?
{{Infobox writer | name = Colin Wilson | image = Colin Wilson.jpg | imagesize = 200px | caption = Pictured in [[Cornwall]], 1984 | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1931|6|26|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Leicester]], [[England]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|2013|12|5|1931|6|26|df=y}} | death_place = [[Cornwall]], England | occupation = [[Author]] | nationality = English | period = 1956–2013 | genre = [[Non-fiction]] and [[fiction]] | movement = [[Angry Young Men]] | notableworks = ''[[The Outsider (Colin Wilson)|The Outsider]]'' <br /> ''[[The Occult: A History|The Occult]]'' | website = {{url|http://www.colinwilsonworld.co.uk}} }} '''Colin Henry Wilson''' (26 June 1931 – 5 December 2013) was an [[English people|English]] [[novelist]] and writer. Wilson also wrote widely on true [[crime]] and [[criminology]], [[mysticism]], the paranormal, and other topics. In all, there are over 120 books,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.colinwilsonworld.co.uk/Pages/WorksbyColin.aspx |title=Colin Wilson World |access-date=2014-11-17 |archive-date=2015-02-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150202043143/http://www.colinwilsonworld.co.uk/Pages/WorksbyColin.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref> including some fiction. He preferred to call his philosophy new [[existentialism]] or [[phenomenology|phenomenological]] existentialism. Wilson was interested in [[metaphysics]] and the [[occult]]. In 1971, he wrote a [[nonfiction]] book named ''The Occult: A History''. In it, he talked about the beliefs of [[Aleister Crowley]], [[Gurdjieff|George Gurdieff]], [[Helena Blavatsky]], [[Kabbalah]], primitive [[magic]], [[Franz Mesmer]], [[Grigori Rasputin]], and [[Paracelsus]]. He also wrote a [[biography]] of Crowley, ''Aleister Crowley: The Nature of the Beast''. He also wrote biographies on other [[visionary|visionaries]] in [[spirituality]] and [[psychology]], including, George Gurdjieff, [[Carl Jung]], and [[Wilhelm Reich]]. Wilson suffered a [[stroke]] in June 2012 and lost his ability to speak.<ref>{{cite web|u