Obituary: Amos Niven Wilder
Amos Niven Wilder, writer and teacher, died aged 97. Brother of the novelist Thornton Wilder, he was a poet and emeritus professor at Harvard Divinity School. His first book of poems Battle Retrospect (1923) was based on his experiences in the First World War, as was his, last Armageddon Revisited (1993).
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