author
Robert Forrest Wilson
1883–1942
An American journalist and biographer, he won the 1942 Pulitzer Prize for a life of Harriet Beecher Stowe. His books also ranged widely across war, travel, and history, showing a reporter’s eye for vivid detail.
1 Audiobook
Demobilization : our industrial and military demobilization after the armistice, 1918-1920
by Benedict Crowell, Robert Forrest Wilson
About the author
Born in Warren, Ohio, in 1883, Robert Forrest Wilson wrote under the name Forrest Wilson and built a career as both a journalist and an author. He is best remembered for Crusader in Crinoline: The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe, which received the 1942 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
Wilson’s background in reporting shaped much of his writing. Records of his published work show a broad range of interests, including books on World War I, travel, and historical subjects such as How America went to war and The living pageant of the Nile.
He died in Weston, Connecticut, in 1942. Although he is not widely known today, his work reflects the energy of an early twentieth-century writer who moved comfortably between newspaper journalism and book-length narrative.