Mitchell A. Wilson

Mitchell A. Wilson (July 17, 1913 in New York[1] - February 25, 1973) was an American novelist and physicist.

[2] Before becoming a writer, Wilson was a research scientist (for a time as an assistant to Enrico Fermi) and instructor in physics at the university level.

At the height of the Cold War, he was considered a major novelist in the Soviet Union, while in his native United States his reputation was considerably less elevated.

A 1945 novel None So Blind was adapted for the 1947 film The Woman on the Beach directed by Jean Renoir.

[3] At the start of his career, he collaborated on a mystery novel The Goose is Cooked with Abraham Polonsky, written under the joint pseudonym of Emmett Hogarth.