Effie Wilder
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Effie Leland Wilder (August 28, 1909 – July 19, 2007) was an American homemaker and writer. The first book she wrote was published when she was 85 years old, it was titled Out to Pasture.
She was born on August 28, 1909, in Rockingham, North Carolina, USA, to Effie Williams Leland and Warren Allston Leland. She graduated from Converse College.
She married Allison F. P. Wilder and had one daughter, Frances Townsend, and three sons, Allison F. P. Wilder, Jr., John A. L. Wilder, and W. Leland Wilder. She had seven grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
She died July 19, 2007, in Summerville, South Carolina[1] at age 97.
Career as author
Wilder authored five books: Older But Wilder, Out To Pasture, One More Time, Over What Hill? and Oh, My Goodness!. Published when Wilder was 85 years old, her first book Out to Pasture received good reviews from The Christian Science Monitor.[2]
