![]() ![]() According to a classmate, “We left him alone, just left him alone. Wilder began writing plays while at The Thacher School in Ojai, California, where he did not fit in and was teased by classmates as overly intellectual. Thornton Wilder also had a twin brother who died at birth. Both of his other sisters, Charlotte Wilder (a noted poet) and Janet Wilder Dakin (a zoologist), attended Mount Holyoke College and were excellent students. His youngest sister, Isabel Wilder, was an accomplished writer. ![]() ![]() Wilder's older brother, Amos Niven Wilder, was Hollis Professor of Divinity at the Harvard Divinity School, a noted poet, and a nationally-ranked tennis player who competed at the Wimbledon tennis championships in 1922. She instilled a love of literature, drama and languages in her children. Isabella Niven Wilder, his mother and a cultured, educated woman, wrote vivid poetry. All of the Wilder children spent part of their childhood in China due to their father's work. Thornton Niven Wilder was born in Madison, Wisconsin, and was the son of Amos Parker Wilder, a U.S. Yet, he believed in the possibility of making a better world, that the good in people can defeat the bad. An thought provoking aspect of his literary legacy is that on the one hand he found life wonderful but on the other admitted that many people experience tragedy and terror. His works are read, performed, studied, and appreciated by audiences worldwide. ![]() He won the three Pulitzer Prizes (both fiction and drama), numerous Tony Awards, and many other literary awards for his work. ![]()
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