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Alexander Joseph Patrick Wilson (24 October 1893 – 4 April 1963) was an English writer, spy and MI6 officer. He wrote under the names Alexander Wilson, Geoffrey Spencer, Gregory Wilson, and Michael Chesney. After his death, his family discovered that he had been a serial polygamist who had lied to many people.
Alexander Joseph Patrick Wilson was an English writer, spy and MI6 officer. He wrote under the names Alexander Wilson, Geoffrey Spencer, Gregory Wilson, and Michael Chesney. After his death, his family discovered that he had been a serial polygamist who had lied to many people.
Writer, lover, soldier, spy: The strange and secretive life of Alexander Wilson. A best-selling author whose back catalogue mysteriously vanished... A man with a taste for bigamy...
- Terry Kirby
The unaccountable and extraordinary life of Alexander Wilson spanned 69 years, four wives, seven children and two wars, and even still, questions remain about the spy and author’s career and the...
- Masterpiece
Read an exclusive Q&A with Alexander Wilson biographer Tim Crook, and learn more about the mysterious life of Wilson and his families.
- Masterpiece
Alexander Wilson was an English writer, spy and MI6 officer. Under his own name and the pseudonyms of Geoffrey Spencer, Gregory Wilson, and Michael Chesney, he penned 24 novels between 1928 and 1940.
Alexander Wilson was a major spy fiction writer of the 1920s and 1930s but disappeared and published nothing more after 1940. His 9-year-old son was told he had been killed at El Alamein in 1942. More than 60 years later that young boy, Mike Shannon, asks Goldsmiths academic Tim Crook to find out more.
