![]() ![]() After the war he returned to his studies at Yale. He served with the First Coast Artillery in Rhode Island in 1918 during World War I (1914 –18), when Germany waged war against much of Europe. Graduating in 1915 from Berkeley High School, Wilder attended Oberlin College before transferring to Yale University in 1917. He also began to demonstrate his unique talents for writing. While in high school, Wilder became interested in theater and began regularly attending performances of plays. The teenager attended the English China Inland Mission School at Cheefoo but returned with his mother and siblings to California in 1912 because of the unstable political conditions in China at the time. In 1906 the family moved to China when his father became the United States Consul-General in Hong Kong. Thornton Niven Wilder was born on April 17, 1897, in Madison, Wisconsin, the second son of four children of Amos Parker and Isabella Wilder. His most well-known novel, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, also won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1927. Novelist and playwright Thornton Wilder won two Pulitzer Prizes for his plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, written in 19 respectively. ![]()
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