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Illuminatus! Author Wilson Dies

Robert Anton Wilson, co-author of the cult book series known as The Illuminatus! Trilogy, died on Jan. 11 at his home in Capitola, Calif., the New York Times reported. He was 74.

Wilson was the author of 35 books on subjects like extrasensory perception, mental telepathy, metaphysics, paranormal experiences, conspiracy theory, sex, drugs and what he called quantum psychology. Together with his friend and fellow Playboy editor Robert J. Shea, Wilson wrote The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple and Leviathan, which were all published in 1975 as part of The Illuminatus! Trilogy, a mind-twisting science-fiction series about a secret global society. Though none of the books reached the best-seller list, they have not gone out of print since their publication.

Wilson was born in Brooklyn on Jan. 18, 1932. He attended Brooklyn Polytechnical College and New York University. He worked as an engineering aide, a salesman and a copywriter, and was an associate editor at Playboy from 1965 to 1971. He is survived by his three children: daughters Christina Pearson of Santa Cruz, Calif., and Alexandra Gardner of Eugene, Ore., and a son, Graham, of Watsonville, Calif. His wife of 39 years, the former Arlen Riley, died in 1999.