Isabel Wilder

Isabel Wilder (January 13, 1900 in Madison, Wisconsin – February 27, 1995 in Hamden, Connecticut)[1][2] was an American novelist, biographer and patron of the arts.

[3] She was the sister of playwright Thornton Wilder,[4] for whom she was literary agent, spokesperson and biographer.

[6] Her father's support for Theodore Roosevelt's presidential campaign earned him a diplomatic appointment and led the family to Hong Kong in 1906, then to Shanghai in 1909.

[8] During and after her studies, she attended a thriving Thornton, who in 1928 had received his first Pulitzer Prize for the novel "The Bridge of San Luis Rey".

After the death of the latter, in 1977, she took care of the publication of his unpublished works, like the opera "The Alcestiad" (1977)[13] and "American Characteristics and Other Essays" (1979),[14] and in 1985 she wrote the preface to "The Journals of Thornton Wilder 1939–1961".