Janet Wilder Dakin

Janet Wilder Dakin

Janet Wilder Dakin (June 3, 1910 - October 7, 1994), was a philanthropist, zoologist and a younger sister of author Thornton Wilder and poet Charlotte Wilder.

She was born in Berkeley, California. She received her B.A in zoology, "magna cum laude", Phi Beta Kappa in 1933, and her M.A. in biology in 1935, both from Mount Holyoke College. She received her Ph.D. in zoology from the University of Chicago in 1939. She taught zoology at Mount Holyoke until she married Winthrop S. Dakin in 1941.

External links

* [http://www.tcnj.edu/~wilder/biography/frame.html Biography from the Thornton Wilder Society]
* [http://www.mtholyoke.edu/lits/library/arch/col/msrg/mancol/ms0674r.htm Dakin papers, 1931-1995]

she also lived in China for a few years because of her fathers work, but then left with her brother and sister because of the un-stable state of the country.:)


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