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Andrew Wilson biography

Andrew Wilson is a British biographer, novelist and journalist. He studied English Literature at King’s College London and later trained in periodical journalism at City University. His journalism has appeared in publications including The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, Smithsonian and The Washington Post.

His first book, Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith, was published by Bloomsbury in 2003. The biography won an Edgar Allan Poe Award for Biography and a Lambda Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography Award. Wilson subsequently wrote biographies of Harold Robbins, Sylvia Plath and fashion designer Alexander McQueen.

Wilson is also the author of Shadow of the Titanic: The Extraordinary Stories of Those Who Survived, published by Simon & Schuster in 2012. The book examines what happened to a selection of Titanic survivors after the sinking, drawing on letters, memoirs, diaries and interviews with their families to explore how the disaster affected their later lives.

His fiction includes the psychological novel The Lying Tongue and a series of historical mysteries featuring Agatha Christie as a fictional detective. The series began with A Talent for Murder in 2017 and continued with A Different Kind of Evil, Death in a Desert Land and I Saw Him Die. He has also written under the name E. V. Adamson.

Wilson’s later biographical work includes I Wanna Be Loved By You: Marilyn Monroe, A Life in 100 Takes, published by Simon & Schuster in 2026. Structured around 100 episodes from Monroe’s life, the book draws on archival material, correspondence, interviews and oral history to examine her career and public image.