[1] He was a member of the Medieval Academy of America, the Organization of American Historians, and the Royal Over-Seas League of London.
[1] Prior to becoming a writer, Robinson had worked as a farmer, a business executive, and also served in the United States Marine Corps.
[2] Robinson's first work, Born in Blood, published in 1990,[nb 1] traced the connections of the Knights Templar and the Freemasons.
The author says that it is considered an important work, but its initial reception was very poor: he says in the preface to A Pilgrim's Path that "not even one newspaper in the United States saw fit to review a book that had the word Freemasonry in the title.
"[11] Robinson says that the book was originally intended to be about the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, but instead traced the fall of the Knights Templar, which he connected to the rise of Freemasonry.