“One of the dangers of the American artist is that he finds himself almost exclusively thrown in with persons more or less in the arts. He lives among them, eats among them, quarrels with them, marries them.”

— Thornton Wilder

Writers at Work interview (1958)

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American playwright and novelist 1897–1975

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