Robert Is a Regular Fixture in Lecture Halls

 90 Years Ago Today

Monday 18th of January 1932
Writer, essayist, editor, playwright, poet, futurist and self-described agnostic mystic Robert Anton Wilson is born as Robert Edward Wilson in Methodist Hospital, New York, Brooklyn, New York, United States.

He moved to California to study at the Los Angeles Medical College of San Francisco, an honor that he continued until at the age he turned seventeen. He has since appeared as editor of various and popular journals and has published hundreds of articles and other professional work in many languages. He resides in the Los Angeles section of California Avenue Studios where he plays guitar and plays chess, with a concentration on philosophy. He was the recipient of several awards for his writing including the Arthur R. Schlesinger Prize, the George B. and Ruth Bowers Medal, and the William E. Regan Award for his pioneering work on the history of philosophy. Robert's first few sentences are "We should try to avoid", "I will try so I can get rid of your brains." He writes in his introduction to his manuscript that he became fascinated, or perhaps "insecuated," by the "wealth of information" of the world as it relates to the individual. He has since developed a habit of reading and pondering on the facts, such as the value of life and the nature of civilization. Robert is a regular fixture in lecture halls.