"Now They Will Realise That I am a Genius"
Colin Wilson has finished his new autobiography and believes that it will, once and for all, demonstrate to the world that he is, indeed, a genius. Author of The Outsider, Wilson has written over 110 books after his seminal meditation on art and crime and appears to have vanished off the face of the planet -- the literary planet, that is. Those who traffic in the fringes (that would be me) still think of him fondly had reference his works on a fairly regular basis.
There's a Guardian interview here where Wilson lays down the quote which he will probably be chased with all the way to the grave. It's an interesting read if you're familiar with his work and, if you're not, he'll come off as a bit of a sad misanthrope -- a characterization which won't engender much interest in his autobiography which, from the standpoint of his writing process and philosophical inquiries, should be worth a bit of your time.
Though, if you are only going to read one or two of Wilson's books, The Outsider or The Philosopher's Stone would be the two I'd recommend. His history of the occult is a pretty good primer too. And he wrote a biography of Aleister Crowley which I just snapped up on Ebay a few days ago that is somewhere down in my office now.
You see? With more than a hundred books out here, he's got a few worth thumbing through.