'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
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Biography from the Thornton Wilder Society
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Dakin papers, 1931-1995