Robert Mason Wiley (May 30, 1955 – October 7, 1994) was an author who co-wrote The Official Preppy Handbook and Inside Oscar: The Unofficial History of the Academy Awards.
[2] He attended Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Virginia and graduated from Columbia University in 1977.
[3][4] While working for the Columbia Daily Spectator, he met future film critic and historian Damien Bona, who later became his writing collaborator.
[5] He was one of the four authors of The Official Preppy Handbook, a humorous, best-selling reference book on prep culture published in 1980.
[7] In 1986, he and Bona wrote a year-by-year account of the Academy Awards that took 4 years of writing and research, with a fourth edition published in 1993.