Robert Wilson (editor)

Robert S. Wilson (born 1951) is an American magazine editor and author. He is the editor of The American Scholar, the literary journal of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He took that position in 2004, after having previously been the literary editor at Civilization magazine and the editor of Preservation magazine. Wilson has also written two biographies set in nineteenth century America, and he has edited a collection of essays from Preservation.