Part one of term paper
Despite the three Pulitzer prizes awarded him, may very well [have turned] out to be one of the few enduring writers of our time...There have been countless other authors who in his day have been far more "discussed." That was inevitable for a man who has neither hastened to follow nor troubled to oppose the current mode, who has gone his ow ...

Part two of term paper
... Wisconsin on the twenty- seventh of April in 1897. His father, Amos Parker Wilder, was a strict Calvinist who combined strong economic interests with politics (Block and Shedd 959) in his work as the editor, owner, and publisher of a newspaper. Isabella Thornton Niven, his mother, was the daughter of a Presbyterian minister. They were to influence their son's works greatly. Wilder also had a sister, Isabel, who was to become a distinguished novelist in her own right. Wilder's early educatio ...