Robert Anton Wilson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Robert Anton Wilson

American author

Date of Birth: 18-Jan-1932

Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, United States

Date of Death: 11-Jan-2007

Profession: writer, poet, psychologist, playwright, philosopher, novelist, essayist, science fiction writer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Robert Anton Wilson (born Robert Edward Wilson; January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007) was an American author, novelist, essayist, editor, playwright, poet, futurist, and self-described agnostic mystic.
Recognized by Discordianism as an Episkopos, Pope, and saint, Wilson helped publicize the group through his writings and interviews. Wilson described his work as an "attempt to break down conditioned associations, to look at the world in a new way, with many models recognized as models or maps, and no one model elevated to the truth".
His goal being "to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone but agnosticism about everything."Wilson was a major figure in the counterculture, comparable to one of his coauthors, Timothy Leary, as well as Terence McKenna and others.