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HEAVEN'S MY DESTINATION - Thornton Wilder-Harper...
Public response to Author Thornton Wilder has been chequered. His first book (The Cabala) was too clever to be popular. His second (The Bridge of San Luis Rey) was the best-selling phenomenon of 1927. Since then he has published a distinguished tour de force (The Woman of Andros), two collections of inconsiderable, unactable playlets (The Angel That Troubled the Waters, The Long Christmas Dinner). Carpers have accused him of being a literary showoff, say he once struck a lucky posture, will never repeat it. Communist Litterateur Mike Gold started the liveliest row the staid New Republic...
Last week Author Wilder surprised many a critic, pleased many a reader. Heaven's My Destination came home and up-to-date with a vengeance. The story of an earnest young U. S. christer's misadventures, it was an able translation of the Wilder talent into current American prose. Instead of Tanagra figurines or Spanish silhouets, the characters were animated U. S. cartoons, drawn with so subtle a line that they seemed more lifelike than comic. As usual in a Wilder story, the philosophic implications were hardly noticeable in the smooth façade of the story...
...Author. Second of five children with a mixed heritage of diplomacy and Presbyterianism, Thornton Niven Wilder was born in Madison, Wis. (1897), went to China at nine when his father was appointed U. S. Consul-General at Hong Kong, attended school there eight years. Back in the U. S. he finished his formal education at Thacher School, Oberlin College, the Coast Artillery Corps, Yale, where he got his A. B. in 1920. Even as a Yale undergraduate he gave promise of being one of the prize blossoms of the current "literary renaissance," attracted the favorable attention of William Lyon Phelps...
Baldish. a bachelor, with a high, nervous voice. Author Wilder writes like an educated angel, talks like an educated Poll, still feels that he has much to learn...