Wilson, R. L.

R. L. Wilson has authored more than forty books and more than three hundred articles in a career that has spanned four decades. His dedication to the world of arms and armor began with a boyhood in Minnesota, followed by internships at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Armouries, H.M. Tower of London, and the Wadsworth Atheneum, where he was appointed curator of firearms at the age of twenty-three.
He resides in San Francisco, but consultancies with private collectors and institutions, including the Autry Museum of Western Heritage, Cody Firearms Museum, the Royal Armouries Museum (Leeds),