Robert Shea

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Robert Joseph Shea (February 14, 1933 - March 10, 1994) was the co-author (with Robert Anton Wilson) of The Illuminatus! Trilogy.<p>Robert Shea met Robert Anton Wilson in the late 1960s, when both were working in the editorial department of Playboy. Before long, they decided to collaborate on a novel that would combine sex, drugs, alternative religions, anarchism, and conspiracy theory, which became Illuminatus!. While they remained close friends for life, they had philosophical and political disagreements, and these enriched the book, helping to make it a dialogic novel in which no single point of view is privileged.<p>On his own, Shea went on to write historical novels, including Shike (1981), All Things Are Lights (1986), and The Saracen, a novel published in two volumes in 1989 depicting the struggle between a blond Muslim warrior called Daoud ibn Abdullah and his French crusader adversary Simon de Gobignon. His last book was the Native American tale Shaman (1991). These stories were...