Eric Wagner, author of Straight Outta Dublin (Hilaritas, 2025) and An Insider’s Guide to Robert Anton Wilson (New Falcon, 2004). Born in 1962 in Washington, D.C,. to two former NSA computer programmers. Eric and his family moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in November, 1967. In 1982 he began reading Robert Anton Wilson’s books, and in 1986 the two began corresponding. In the years since Eric began reading Wilson, he has traveled from Ingolstadt, Bavaria, to Aswan, Egypt, from Country Kerry, Ireland, to Honolulu, Hawaii, attempting to understand the ideas behind Wilson’s works. Wilson turned Eric on to James Joyce’s writing, and Eric led a Finnegans Wake study group from 1985 to 2021, including the world’s longest running high school Finnegans Wake study group from 1998 to 2021. Eric has worked as a computer programmer, operator and microcoder, a musician, a poet, a technical writer, a dancer, a film historian and a teacher, etc. He earned a B.A. in English from Arizona State University in 1985. He earned an M.A. in Composition from California State University at San Bernardino in 2004. He continues to pursue a campaign of remedial reading, reading Melville, Ibn ‘Arabi, Tolstoy, Proust, Stendhal, etc.