Wilder Receives Fiction Award Of Arts and Letters Academy

Thornton Wilder, popular novelist and ex-Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, will receive this year's Gold Medal for Fiction from the Academy of Arts and Letters, it was announced recently.

Wilder spoke during last year's spring term in Humanities 2 on the epic and the novel, and also gave a series of talks in Sanders Theatre.

The medal will be presented this spring at a joint meeting of the Academy and the National Institute of Arts and Letters. The award is given on the basis of the entire output of the author, rather than any one specific work.