Historian Gary Lachman delivers a fascinating, rollicking biography of
literary and cultural rebel Colin Wilson, one of the most adventurous,
hopeful, and least understood intellects of the past century.
You will embark on the intellectual ride of a lifetime in this
rediscovery of the life and work of writer, rebel, and social
experimenter Colin Wilson (1931-2013).
Author of the classic The Outsider, Wilson, across his 118 books,
purveyed a philosophy of mind power and human potential that made him
one of the least understood and most important voices of the twentieth
century. Wilson helped usher in the cultural revolution of the 1960s
with his landmark work, The Outsider, published in 1956. The
Outsider was an intelligent, meticulous, and unprecedented study of
nonconformity in all facets of life. Wilson, finally, became a prolific
and unparalleled historian of the occult, providing a generation of
readers with a responsible and scholarly entry point to a world of
mysteries.
Now, acclaimed historian Gary Lachman, a friend of Wilson and a scholar
of his work, provides an extraordinary and delightful biography that
delves into the life, thought, and evolution of one of the greatest
intellectual rebels and underrated visionaries of the twentieth century.
