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There, in an interview punctuated by frequent trips to supervise plumbers who were installing a new dishwasher, Miss Wilder was extremely helpful in providing incidents from her brother's early life. Barton noticed that, for a writer, there were few books around the house, wondered about it aloud. Isabel explained that Wilder gave books away all the time, and that she could "barely hang on to copies of books written by members of the family"-a small library in itself, including three novels by Isabel. Giving away books seemed to be a family weakness; Researcher Burns was given...
That was the starting point for TIME'S Paris bureau when they were asked to find the author himself. The American Express office was holding letters for Wilder, but didn't know where he was. Correspondent Fred Klein got in touch with the American Embassy, Paris publishers and others, finally received word that Wilder could probably be found at Saint-Moritz...
After calling five hotels at Saint-Moritz, Klein located the writer at one of them. Wilder promised to keep him posted on his address as he traveled...
...days later, a postcard came from Zurich. A short time later, another card came from Munich, which read: "I feel like a man on parole reporting to my sponsor, Mr. Klein . . . Punctually yours, Thornton Wilder." Wilder moved on to Baden-Baden, then back to Munich, then to Innsbruck. London Correspondent A. T. Baker caught up with him there and spent four days with...
Reports Baker: "Wilder took mornings for work on a UNESCO report. We had lunch together, finding some quiet Stube where we could sit long after other guests had departed, while he talked and I scribbled, or prodded...