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Thornton Niven Wilder (April 17, 1897 – December 7, 1975) was an American playwright and novelist. He won three Pulitzer Prizes, for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and for the plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, and a U.S. National Book Award for the novel The Eighth Day. Early life and education Wilder with two of his siblings and their father Amos at the family cottage in Maple Bluff, Wisconsin in 1900.
Thornton Wilder (born April 17, 1897, Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.—died December 7, 1975, Hamden, Connecticut) was an American writer whose innovative novels and plays reflect his views of the universal truths in human nature. He is probably best known for his plays. After graduating from Yale University in 1920, Wilder studied archaeology in Rome.
Thornton Wilder (1897–1975) was a pivotal figure in the literary history of the twentieth-century. He is the only writer to win Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction and drama. He received the Pulitzer for his novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927) and the plays Our Town (1938) and The Skin of Our Teeth (1942).
Biography. Born in Madison, Wisconsin, and educated at Yale and Princeton, Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) was an accomplished novelist and playwright whose works explore the connection between the commonplace and the cosmic dimensions of human experience. The Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of his seven novels, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928, and his ...
The Wilder Family LLC celebrates Thornton Wilder as an international Playwright and Novelist. Through partnerships and collaborations with agents, publishers and practitioners throughout the world, we seek to introduce Wilder’s body of work to new audiences, and to encourage subsidiary works based on his published and unpublished record. The family also represents the literary record for Wilder’s three siblings who were also writers: Amos Charlotte and Isabel.
Thornton Niven Wilder was an American playwright and novelist. He received three Pulitzer Prizes, one for his novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and two for his plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth , and a National Book Award for his novel The Eighth Day .
Feb 13, 2021 · NPR's Scott Simon speaks to writer Howard Sherman about his new book, "Another Day's Begun: Thornton Wilder's Our Town in the 21st Century," which interviews participants from an array of productions.
Biography. Click on the links below for biographical information on Thornton Wilder’s life, accomplishments, and family. The Chronology area includes Wilder’s works and awards, while the Life & Family area includes information on his parents and siblings. Chronology. Life & Family. Dedicated to preserving and expanding the legacy of ...
Dec 8, 1975 · Thornton Wilder, who won three Pulitzer Prizes for his writing, died yesterday in his sleep at his home in Hamden, Conn. He was 78 years old. The playwright and novelist suffered a heart attack ...
Mar 17, 2022 · The 125th anniversary of Thornton Wilder’s birth (April 17, 1897) will be observed throughout 2022 with nearly 150 productions of his plays worldwide – including OUR TOWN, a new production of THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH on Broadway and a first-ever staging of his unfinished play THE EMPORIUM completed by Kirk Lynn (Rude Mechanicals) at the Alley Theater in Houston – along with new editions of several plays, the recent new edition of Wilder’s Pulitzer-Prize winning novel "The Bridge of San ...
Oct 26, 2012 · The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder; American Characteristics; A Tour of the Darkling Plain; Thornton Wilder: Collected Plays & Writings on Theatre; Biography of Thornton Wilder; The Journals of Thornton Wilder 1939–1961; Conversations with Thornton Wilder; Thornton Wilder: The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Novels 1926–1948
Thornton Wilder’s oldest sister Charlotte Wilder (1898-1980) was a poet who shared the Shelley Memorial Award for Poetry in 1937 with Ben Belitt. She attended high schools in Berkeley, California, and in China, and graduated from Berkeley High School. She was an outstanding student at Mount Holyoke College, majoring in English, and receiving her degree in 1919, magna cum laude. She was also elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
Thornton Wilder. Writer: Shadow of a Doubt. Thornton Niven Wilder was the second of five children in the family of a newspaper editor and a U.S. diplomat, Amos Parker Wilder, and Isabella Niven Wilder. He spent part of his childhood with his father, who was a Consul General in Hong Kong and Shanghai between 1906 and 1914. Wilder finished high school in California, received his undergraduate degree at Yale, and...
The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder; American Characteristics; A Tour of the Darkling Plain; Thornton Wilder: Collected Plays & Writings on Theatre; Biography of Thornton Wilder; The Journals of Thornton Wilder 1939–1961; Conversations with Thornton Wilder; Thornton Wilder: The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Novels 1926–1948
The final phase of Thornton Wilder’s illustrious career was marked by a triumphant return to the novel after twenty years. The National Book Award–winning The Eighth Day is an epic tale, at once expansive and nuanced, of two American families and their intertwined destinies. John Ashley, a mining engineer in Coaltown, Illinois, is sentenced to death for the murder of his colleague Breckenridge Lansing, but just hours before his execution, a strange and audacious raid sets him free. ...
Mar 17, 2022 · FILE - Playwright and author Thornton Wilder appears at the airport in West Berlin on Sept. 11, 1957. Wilder is being honored in multiple ways during 2022, with new productions of his plays, the first-ever staging of an unfinished script and new editions of his works being published to mark the 125th anniversary of his birth.
When people think of Thornton Wilder these days, it likely involves a vague memory of a high school performance of Our Town. The wise old Stage Manager of the play became many generations’ image of the playwright himself, but few know Wilder’s other plays or bother to read his seven novels (except maybe The Bridge of San Luis Rey–like Our Town, a Pulitzer winner exiled to the dread high school required reading list).
Dec 30, 2012 · The only unambiguous account we have of Thornton Wilder’s sexual life comes from a young man named Samuel Steward, whom Gertrude Stein had befriended and sent to visit him in Zurich, in 1937.
Thornton Wilder was born in Madison, Wisconsin on April 17, 1897, the son of Amos Parker Wilder (a newspaper editor and later US diplomat) and Isabella Thornton Niven. He had four siblings along with a twin that was stillborn. All of the surviving Wilder kids spent part of their childhood while their dad was stationed in Shanghai and Hong Kong as US Consul General.
The Thornton Wilder Journal welcomes articles on any aspect of Wilder Studies: analysis of the plays and novels, comparative studies featuring Wilder, explorations of and adaptations of Wilder’s works in the United States and abroad, and research on Wilder’s family and their creative and intellectual output. It also publishes reviews of books about Wilder and of professional productions or innovative non-professional productions. Visit our Journal page for details on submissions ...
The Wilder Family LLC celebrates Thornton Wilder as an international Playwright and Novelist. Through partnerships and collaborations with agents, publishers and practitioners throughout the world, we seek to introduce Wilder’s body of work to new audiences, and to encourage subsidiary works based on his published and unpublished record. The family also represents the literary record for Wilder’s three siblings who were also writers: Amos Charlotte and Isabel.
Wilder125 Cards and Timeline. Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) was a novelist and playwright whose works celebrate the connection between the commonplace and the cosmic dimensions of human experience. He is the only writer to win Pulitzer Prizes for both drama and fiction: for his novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey, and two plays, Our Town and The ...
The Wilder Family LLC celebrates Thornton Wilder as an international Playwright and Novelist. Through partnerships and collaborations with agents, publishers and practitioners throughout the world, we seek to introduce Wilder’s body of work to new audiences, and to encourage subsidiary works based on his published and unpublished record. The family also represents the literary record for Wilder’s three siblings who were also writers: Amos Charlotte and Isabel.
