Word: niven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...broken. Besides his two novels he has written two books of short stones (In Our Time, Men Without Women'), a satiric novelette (The Torrents of Spring). He is by no means "litr'ry" in talk or thought, but his writer friends include Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, Thornton Niven Wilder...
From Lawrenceville, N. J. to Buenos Aires is 5,300 miles. Not many people in Lawrenceville have frequent occasion to telephone to Buenos Aires, though Thornton Niven Wilder, who teaches school there, might have liked to telephone Peru while writing The Bridge of San Luis Key. Nevertheless, the telephone operators of Lawrenceville may expect many a call for Buenos Aires to go through before long. Arrangements were made last week for International Telephone & Telegraph Co. to hook its telephone-subscribers to its short wave radio station at Buenos Aires and for American Telephone & Telegraph Co. to hook U. S. telephone...
...Thornton Niven ("Bridge of San Luis Rey") Wilder threw light upon his past work, and perhaps suggested the nature of future accomplishment, when he announced last week to fiction-conscious Bostonians that: "Literature is the orchestration of platitudes...
Amos Parker Wilder, 67, father of Thornton Niven (Bridge of San Luis Rey) Wilder, retired last week as associate editor of the New Haven Journal-Courier...
...Lawrenceville in New Jersey, the loss (for a year) of Novelist-Professor Thornton Niven Wilder, writing a novel in England, tramping with a friend; the gain of ten new Masters...