Robert Ingersoll Wilder (January 25, 1901 – August 22, 1974)[1] was an American novelist, playwright and screenwriter.
[1] At various times in his life, Mr. Wilder was a soda jerk, a ship fitter, a theater usher, a shipping clerk, a newspaper copyboy, boss of a criminal gang, "a publicity agent" (Claudette Colbert was among his clients), a radio executive, and a journalist (for The New York Sun).
Two of his plays were Sweet Chariot, based on the life and career of African-American activist Marcus Garvey, and Stardust, both produced on Broadway, at a time when Wilder was living in Bayside, New York.
He wrote one of the screenplays for the Western The Big Country (1958), directed by William Wyler.
For the early 1980s television series Flamingo Road, Wilder was credited as its creator.