Robert Kinloch Massie

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For the American historian (born 1924), see Robert K. Massie.

Rev. Robert Kinloch Massie (born 1956) is an American author, Episcopal priest, and former anti-apartheid activist. He is the son of the famous author and journalist Robert K. Massie, and author Suzanne Massie.

He was educated at Princeton University and earned both a Master's degree in Divinity at Yale and a Doctorate in Business Administration at Harvard. He was born with hemophilia. In the process of learning to deal with his disease, his parents began to study its history, including information on the most famous hemophiliac, the Tsarevich Alexis, son of Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia. Their experience led to Robert Massie Sr.'s book Nicholas and Alexandra. The Massies also documented their son's early trials in their jointly-written book Journey.

The Rev. Massie's life improved considerably with modern treatment, such as synthetic Factor VIII. However, he was infected with HIV by a transfusion of contaminated blood before the danger of untested blood was realized. Remarkably, he did not develop any symptoms and has been the subject of various studies of asymptomatic carriers of HIV.

He became an activist against apartheid in his student days. In 1998 he published "Loosing the Bonds : The United States and South Africa in the Apartheid Years" (Doubleday, 1998).

He ran for the post of lieutenant governor of Massachusetts in 1994, becoming the Democratic candidate by winning a statewide primary. He is a fellow and former Executive Director of Ceres, the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies.