Charlotte Wilder

Charlotte Elizabeth Wilder (August 28, 1898 – May 26, 1980) was an American poet and academic who worked in the Federal Writers Project.

Wilder published poetry in The Nation and Poetry Magazine. She also published poetry collections in 1936 and 1939.

Life

Wilder was the daughter of diplomat Amos Parker Wilder and Isabella Thornton Niven. She was the third child and eldest sister of Thornton Wilder, Isabel Wilder, Janet Wilder Dakin, and Amos Wilder.

Wilder grew up in Berkeley, California, and graduated from Berkeley High School. In 1919, she received her Bachelor of Arts in English literature, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Mount Holyoke College in 1919. In 1925, Wilder received an M.A. from Radcliffe College.

Wilder experienced a mental health crisis in 1941, the repercussions of which lasted until her death. She died on May 26, 1980, in a nursing home in Brattleboro. The Last Hour, Volume 24, July 1924, Page 200 Of Persons Not Alive, Volume 39, March 1932, Page 303 City Streets, Volume 47, January 1936, Page 198 To Beauty, Volume 47, January 1936, Page 198 Sanctuary, Volume 52, July 1938, Page 202 Mortal Sequence, Volume 55, January 1940, Page 217 (see Daly, James)

Two collections of her work were published by Coward-McCann, Inc.: Phases of the Moon (1936) and Mortal Sequence (1939).