![]() It was here that he refined his writing abilities as a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, a literary society. He graduated from Berkeley High School in the year 1915.Īfter he served a three month long enlistment in the Army’s Coast Artillery Corps at Fort Adams, Rhode Island, during World War I (rising to the rank of corporal), he went to Oberlin College before he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in the year 1920 at Yale University. He started writing plays while at the Thacher School in Ojai, California, where he got teased by classmates as being overly intellectual and he did not fit in. Charlotte Wilder was also a poet, and Janet Wilder Dakin was a zoologist, while their sister Isabel was an accomplished writer on her own. Thornton’s older brother, named Amos, became Hollis Professor of Divinity at the Harvard Divinity School, and was a noted poet and was instrumental in developing the field of theopoetics. ![]() All of the surviving Wilder kids spent part of their childhood while their dad was stationed in Shanghai and Hong Kong as US Consul General. ![]() ![]() He had four siblings along with a twin that was stillborn. Thornton Wilder was born in Madison, Wisconsin on April 17, 1897, the son of Amos Parker Wilder (a newspaper editor and later US diplomat) and Isabella Thornton Niven. ![]()
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