Editing Thornton Wilder (section)

==Education==
[[File:Thornton Wilder Yale graduation photo 1920.jpg|thumb|Wilder in his 1920 [[Yale College]] graduation photo]]
Wilder began writing plays while at the [[The Thacher School|Thacher School]] in [[Ojai, California]], where he did not fit in and was teased by classmates as overly [[intellectual]]. According to a classmate, "We left him alone, just left him alone. And he would retire at the library, his hideaway, learning to distance himself from humiliation and indifference."{{Quote without source|date=December 2024}} His family lived for a time in China, where his sister Janet was born in 1910. He attended the English [[China Inland Mission]] [[Chefoo School]] at [[Yantai]], but returned with his mother and siblings to California in 1912 because of the unstable political conditions in China at the time.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2008-12-18/article/31842?headline=Thornton-Wilder-on-the-South-Side-of-Our-Town |title=Thornton Wilder on the South Side of Our Town |newspaper=[[The Berkeley Daily Planet]] |first=Phil |last=McArdle |date=December 17, 2008}}</ref> Thornton graduated from [[Berkeley High School (California)|Berkeley High School]] in 1915.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thorntonwilder.com/about-wilder/biography/|title=Biography|website=Thornton Wilder|language=en-US|access-date=January 10, 2018}}</ref>

Wilder served a three-month enlistment in the [[United States Army|U.S. Army]]'s [[Coast Artillery Corps]] at [[Fort Adams]] in [[Rhode Island]] during [[World War I]], eventually rising to the rank of [[corporal]]. He attended [[Oberlin College]] before earning his [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree in 1920 at [[Yale University]], where he refined his writing skills as a member of the [[Alpha Delta Phi]] fraternity, a literary society. He earned his [[Master of Arts]] degree in French literature from [[Princeton University]] in 1926.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.twildersociety.org/biography/chronology/ |title=Chronology |website=Thornton Wilder Society |access-date=July 14, 2017}}</ref>