Gilbert Collins

Gilbert Henry Collins was a British writer born in Southampton in 1890. Reliable reference sources describe him as an author of adventure and detective fiction, and also note that he wrote stories now associated with lost-world fiction.

Before and alongside his writing life, he served as a gunner in the Royal Garrison Artillery during the First World War. He later worked in the British Consular Service in China from 1919 to 1922, an experience that appears to have influenced some of his early fiction and its settings.

Collins published novels including The Starkenden Quest and The Valley of Eyes Unseen, and he died in 1960. A suitable verified portrait image was not clearly available from the sources I could confirm, so no author photo is included here.