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Robert H. Wilson
1909–1998
A scholar by training and a pulp-era science fiction writer by practice, he brought an unusually thoughtful touch to stories of space travel and far-off worlds. His work sits at the meeting point of academic learning and classic magazine-era adventure.
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Out Around Rigel
by Robert H. Wilson
About the author
Robert Henry Wilson (April 5, 1909–January 15, 1998) was an American science fiction writer best known for stories such as Out Around Rigel. Sources available here identify him as a longtime contributor to classic science fiction and note that his fiction remains of interest to readers of early genre magazines.
He also had a strong academic background. According to the biographical information available through LibriVox and related bibliographic listings, he earned a BA from Stanford University in 1928, an MA in 1930, and a PhD in medieval literature from the University of Chicago in 1932.
That mix of scholarship and imagination helps explain the feel of his work: adventurous on the surface, but often grounded in careful thought and a wider literary sensibility. Detailed personal information appears to be limited in the sources I could confirm, so this overview stays close to the biographical facts that were consistently available.