Wilson, Halsey William (1868-1954)

US bibliographer and publisher. He published standard works in book indexes. As the owner of a Minneapolis bookstore he compiled and in 1898 began publishing the Cumulative Book Index, which continues as an authoritative bibliographic reference work. In 1901, he began publishing the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, followed in 1905 by the Book Review Digest and in 1914 the Wilson Library Journal. In 1913 he moved the HW Wilson Company to White Plains, New York, and then to the Bronx, New York, New York, where it remains today as a major publisher of reference works. He was born in Wilmington, Vermont.