William Moulton Marston (1893–1947), who also published under the pen name Charles Moulton, was an American 🏷️#psychologist, inventor, and 🏷️#writer best known for creating the comic-book superhero 📝Wonder Woman. Harvard-educated — he earned a BA, an LL.B., and a 1921 doctorate in psychology — Marston devised the systolic-blood-pressure test that became an early prototype of the polygraph, and originated the behavioral theory that endures today as the 📝DISC Assessment. He was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2006.
Marston created Wonder Woman in 1941 with artist Harry G. Peter, embedding in her his theories of feminine authority and "loving submission" — he argued that "the only hope for peace is to teach people... to enjoy being bound," and gave the heroine a Lasso of Truth that echoed his own lie-detector work. His wife, Elizabeth Holloway Marston, and the couple's polyamorous life partner, Olive Byrne, shaped both the character and the household behind it; Marston set out his psychological framework in the 1928 book Emotions of Normal People. The trio's unconventional life is dramatized in the 2017 film 📝Professor Marston and the Wonder Women.
Marston lives in my library as the namesake and intellectual root of 📝Diana Marston — the co-created Character that Citizens of One play in service of 📝One, Inc. Her founding charter is his words; the myth of feminine force he built into Wonder Woman is the one the Character is built on.