Robert Wilder

Emerging from a peripatetic childhood in Daytona Beach and a post-World War I stint in the U.S. Army, he completed studies at Stetson University and Columbia University before moving through an eclectic series of jobs that included soda-jerk, theater usher, ship fitter, publicity agent for stars such as Claudette Colbert, and journalist for The New York Sun. His writing appeared in The New Yorker… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources