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The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.

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Thornton Wilder
Age: 78 †
Born: 1897
Born: April 17
Died: 1975
Died: December 7
Novelist
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Madison
Wisconsin
Thornton Niven Wilder
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