Wilson, Robert Forrest, 1883-1942
URI(s)
Variants
Additional Information
Birth Date
Death Date
Birth Place
Associated Language
Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Sources
found: Blessed event [MP] 1932:credits (based on the play by Forrest Wilson)
found: LC in OCLC, 6-18-87(Hdg.: Wilson, Robert Forrest, 1883-1942; usage: Robert Forrest Wilson)
found: Paris on parade, 1925:t.p. (Robert Forrest Wilson)
found: Crusader in crinoline, 1941:t.p. (Forrest Wilson)
found: Wikipedia, viewed 6 Sept. 2017:under Forrest Wilson (Robert Forrest Wilson (January 20, 1883 in Warren, Ohio - May 9, 1942 in Weston, Connecticut) was an American author and journalist. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography in 1942 for his biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe "Crusader in crinoline". During the First World War he served as a captain with the US Army Chemical Warfare Service, and later (1923-1927) as Assistant Secretary of War charged with gathering historical data on the conflict, much of formed the basis of several co-authored works about mobilization. After the war, in common with tens of thousands of Americans he moved to Paris and lived there for some years, a period which he details in his book "Paris on parade")
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
Collection Membership(s)
Change Notes
1988-11-21: new
2017-09-07: revised
Alternate Formats
