Robert S. Wilcox was born and raised in and around Pasadena, California. As a child he was always fascinated with art, and dabbled in painting, drawing and sculpturing. His intellectual curiosity compelled him towards anything mechanical and he was constantly disassembling things to see how they worked----to his parents' dismay. When he was twelve, he received his first computer and immediately took to programming. Electronics was a natural progression and he became very proficient in repairing those things that he used to merely disassemble.

In high school, though his primary focus was electronics, he excelled in English and eventually developed a passion for writing. Yet, this would be the extent of his personal foray until he wrote his first book twelve years later. Graduating in 1991 with a degree in electronics, he immediately found employment and would spend the next twelve years developing his skills as a microprocessor control specialist. At the end of 1995, he transferred to Akron, Ohio, taking a job as a process controls engineer.

While on vacation in November of 1998, he received a book from his father about the Year 2000 computer problem. After reading a very negative and dismal account, geared with experience and knowledge, he was compelled to write a rebuttal. What started out as an article turned into a 176-page book based upon extensive research and rational conclusions. In the words of Solveig Singleton of the Cato Institute, "The detailed arguments he offers are truly outstanding--in fact, they're the best of any book so far."

After spending six years in Northern Ohio, he finally moved back to southern California, landing a job with the University of California, Los Angeles. Over the past several years he has traveled all over the United States and on several occasions to Europe. It was there while in Bologna, Italy that he met his wife, Valentina. Not soon after they had a daughter. Mr. Wilcox and his family currently reside near Glendale, California.