Louis Wilkinson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 17-Dec-1881
Place of Birth: Aldeburgh, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 12-Sep-1966
Profession: novelist
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Louis Wilkinson
- Louis Umfreville Wilkinson (17 December 1881 – 12 September 1966) was a British author, lecturer and biographer who usually wrote under the pseudonym Louis Marlow.
- In a long career he associated with a number of the prominent literary figures of his day, in particular the Powys brothers John Cowper, Theodore ("T.F.") and Llewelyn.
- He also formed close friendships with Frank Harris, Somerset Maugham, and the notorious occultist and magician Aleister Crowley. As a schoolboy at Radley College, Wilkinson instigated a lively correspondence with Oscar Wilde, then living in exile in France.
- After a short spell at Pembroke College, Oxford, from which he was dismissed for blasphemy, Wilkinson attended St John's College, Cambridge, where he established a formidable literary and personal reputation – he was known as "the Archangel".
- In 1905, while still at Cambridge, he wrote and published his first novel.
- After graduating, he embarked on a career as a lecturer in English literature, mainly in the United States, where he spent most of the following fifteen years and became part of a lively American literary scene.
- Wilkinson began to write seriously in 1915, and during the next forty years produced a substantial quantity of fiction and biography.
- In the 1920s he began using the Marlow name, which he retained in his published work for the remainder of his creative life.
- His books were usually well received by the critics, although their overall impact was modest and stirred little scholarly interest. After the Second World War, Wilkinson caused a minor sensation when, at Crowley's cremation in December 1947, in accordance with the deceased's expressed wishes, he recited the latter's pagan poem "Hymn of Pan" and other sacrilegious texts – although he was not himself a follower.
- In addition to his novels he wrote several biographical works, and helped to edit the correspondence of the Powys brothers.
- After his memoir, Seven Friends, published in 1953, he faded into relative obscurity, producing little further published work before his death in 1966.
- He married four times, being twice widowed and twice divorced.
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