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November 20, 1927. Many aspiring young writers are awaiting to one day see their name in the New York Herald Tribune. Every week of every year, these young writers hoped that the newspaper would recognize their artistic genius and make it known to the rest of the world. But these discoveries weren’t often so when Thornton Wilder read that he was a distinguished artist on that November Sunday in the Herald Tribune, his first four words were “why me, why me?”. Not only would his leisure activities be chronicled on the front page, but he also...