Diderot

Arthur McCandless Wilson (1902–1979) was an American professor of biography and government at Dartmouth College, renowned for his authoritative two-volume biography of Denis Diderot, Diderot: The Testing Years, 1713–1759 and Diderot: The Appeal to Posterity, 1759–1784, which won the 1973 National Book Award for Nonfiction. His earlier work, French Foreign Policy during the Administration of Cardinal Fleury, 1726–1743, earned the 1938 Herbert Baxter Adams Prize from the American Historical Association. A Rhodes Scholar with degrees from Oxford and Harvard, he conducted extensive research across Europe and Russia.