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Robert Forrest Wilson
1883–1942
A Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and biographer, he is best remembered for Crusader in Crinoline, his life of Harriet Beecher Stowe. His work ranged widely, from war history to travel and cultural subjects, giving his books a brisk, informed feel.
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 as Forrest Wilson and built a career as an American author and journalist. He is best known for winning the 1942 Pulitzer Prize for Biography for Crusader in Crinoline: The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Wilson's published work shows a broad range of interests. In addition to biography, he wrote on the First World War and American mobilization, and he also produced books with historical and travel themes, including The Living Pageant of the Nile.
He died in Weston, Connecticut, in 1942. Reliable sources found here offer only limited personal detail, but they consistently show him as a versatile nonfiction writer whose books connected large historical events with vivid human stories.