About the Author

Visionary, humorist, novelist, playwright, poet, popular science writer, libertarian philosopher, adept—Robert Anton Wilson is a man of many parts.

One of the founders of the Institute for the Study of Human Future, Robert Anton Wilson is also a director of the Prometheus Society, a Maryland-based lobby group engaged in promoting the scientific search for immortality. An active member of the L-5 Society, a group of scientists who are determined to send out the first space-city, Dr. Wilson is vitally concerned with humanity’s new frontier.

A former editor at Playboy magazine and author of fourteen books, his novel Illuminatus! was adapted as a 10-hour science-fiction rock epic and performed under the patronage of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at Great Britain’s National Theatre, where Dr. Wilson appeared briefly on stage in a special cameo role.

Illuminatus! has also been performed on the stage in the U.S., Germany, and the Netherlands. Dr. Wilson’s works have been published in Sweden, France, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, and throughout the English-speaking world.

Robert Anton Wilson holds a Ph.D. in psychology and often appears on radio and TV in the U.S., Canada, and Great Britain and frequently addresses futurist and libertarian gatherings.