page_title: Charlotte Wilder
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Charlotte Wilder / Life
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of American author Thornton Wilder as a child at the Wilder family cottage at Maple Bluff, Wisconsin, four miles from the family home at Madison. Pictured are Thornton Wilder's father Amos (standing) with Charlotte, Thornton and Madison, the three eldest Wilder children. Image courtesy of the Beinecke Rare Book &amp; Manuscript Library, Yale University.[1]
context_page_description: Charlotte Wilder was an American poet, the daughter of Amos Parker Wilder and the eldest sister of author Thornton Wilder, Isabel Wilder, Janet Wilder Dakin, and Amos Wilder.
context_section_description: She grew up in Berkeley, California and graduated from Berkeley High School (Berkeley, California). She received her B.A in English literature, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Mount Holyoke College in 1919 and her M.A. from Radcliffe College. She taught at Wheaton College and Smith College until 1934 when she became a full-time poet.
  According to an article in the January 15, 1983 issue of The Nation, ("New Deal New York" by Frederika Randall), Wilder worked on the Federal Writers' Project, part of the Works Progress Administration, during the 1930s. Other writers who worked on this project included Richard Wright (author), Ralph Ellison, Claude McKay, David Ignatow, and Maxwell Bodenheim.
  She suffered from a nervous breakdown in 1941, the repercussions of which lasted until her death in 1980.
caption: Charlotte with her father Amos, brother Thornton and one other sibling at family cottage in Maple Bluff, Wisconsin (1900)
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