Robert Forrest Wilson

Born in Warren, Ohio, in 1883, he built an unusually varied career as a reporter, military officer, government researcher, and author. Early on he worked for Scripps newspapers in Washington, D.C., and during World War I he served as a captain in the U.S. Army Chemical Warfare Service.

After the war, he helped document America's wartime mobilization in a series of books written with Benedict Crowell. He later spent time in Paris as a correspondent, drawing on that experience in his writing about the city, its culture, and its creative life.

His best-known book is Crusader in Crinoline: The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe, which received the 1942 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. He died in Weston, Connecticut, in 1942, the same year that work brought him his greatest recognition.