Carl Wilson

Dickens enthusiast and writer Carl Wilson started attending Dickens Universe in 2010, joining the Friends in 2014. Carl’s love of Dickens began when he read Our Mutual Friend as a child, still his favorite novel. A native Oregonian who resides in Portland with his husband Evan and Devon Rex, Miss Lucretia Tox, Carl works part-time for Literary Arts, a readers and writers non-profit in Portland, Oregon. Since 2012, he has facilitated book multi-session book group discussions on A Tale of Two Cities, Our Mutual Friend, A Christmas Carol, Great Expectations, and David Copperfield, as well as non-Dickens sessions on Moby Dick, most of E. M. Forster’s work, Far From the Madding Crowd, and Vanity Fair, among others. At the 2013 Dickens Universe featuring The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone, he presented a lecture entitled “Passion and Pastiche,” an exploration of how he adapted Dickens’s works for his own mystery novels—The Christmas Carol Murders and The Edwin Drood Murders.