Arthur McCandless Wilson (29 July 1902, Sherrard, Illinois – 13 June 1979, Hanover, New Hampshire) was a professor of biography and government.
During WWW II he served in Washington, DC, with the Office of Strategic Services.
[1] Wilson's book French Foreign Policy during the Administration of Cardinal Fleury, 1726–1743: A Study in Diplomacy and Commercial Development, published in 1936 by Harvard University Press,[5] was awarded in 1938 the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize of the American Historical Association.
Wilson's research on his famous biography of Diderot began in 1936 and received support from Guggenheim fellowships for the academic years 1939–1940 and 1956–1957.
[1] His remains were buried at Hillside Cemetery in Norwich, Vermont, the small town where he lived in retirement.