They say never meet your heroes, because they have feet of clay. I wish I'd never started reading this book. I love Wilkie Collins' books, but the man himself was a pervert. He had a couple of different mistresses and never married, and I just got tired of hearing about his sexual exploits and his flirtations. Really gross.

I think from now on, I will give up on trying to read author biographies, because they are usually not very nice people, and it ruins my enjoyment of their books. I would rather just enjoy the art and not know anything about the artist.