Robert Wilson (editor)

Robert S. Wilson (born 1951^[1]) is an American writer and retired magazine editor. ^[2] From 2004 to 2022 he edited The American Scholar, the literary journal published by the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Before that he was editor of the AARP Bulletin and Preservation magazine and literary editor of Civilization magazine. Wilson has also written three biographies set in nineteenth-century America and edited a collection of essays from Preservation.