Robert Charles Wilson was born in Whittier, CA in 1953, but spent his childhood growing up near Toronto, Canada; he has, in fact, spent most of his life in Canada. He has enjoyed a popular and critically acclaimed career as a science fiction writer, beginning in 1986 with his first novel *A Hidden Place*, which was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award for Best Novel.
Other notable works of Wilson's include *Memory Wire* (1988), *A Bridge of Years* (1991, also nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award), *Mysterium* (1994, winner of the Philip K. DIck Award), *Darwinia* (1998, nominated for the Hugo and the *Locus SF* Awards for Best Novel), *The Chronoliths* (2001, nominated for the Hugo and *Locus SF* Awards for Best Novel and winner of the Campbell Award), *Blind Lake* (2003, nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel), the *Spin* series of novels: *Spin* (2005, winner of the Campbell Award and of the Hugo Award for Best Novel), *Axis* (2007, nominated for the Campbell Award *), and *Vortex* (2011); and *Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America* (2009).