March 31, 2017 | History

Thornton Wilder

17 April 1897 - 7 December 1975

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.

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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
53 editions - first published in 1927 Borrow
Our town: a play in three acts
36 editions - first published in 1938 Borrow
The Ides of March
23 editions - first published in 1948 Borrow
The cabala
22 editions - first published in 1926 Borrow
Three plays
21 editions - first published in 1955 Borrow
Heaven's my destination
17 editions - first published in 1934 DAISY
The Eighth Day
17 editions - first published in 1967 DAISY
The skin of our teeth: play in three acts.
13 editions - first published in 1942
Theophilus North
10 editions - first published in 1973 Borrow
The Woman of Andros
9 editions - first published in 1930
The matchmaker: a farce in four acts.
7 editions - first published in 1955
The long Christmas dinner: play in one act
6 editions - first published in 1933
Pullman car Hiawatha: a play in one act.
5 editions - first published in 1931
The Alcestiad: or, A life in the sun : a play in three acts, with a satyr play, The drunken sisters
5 editions - first published in 1977 DAISY
Los Idus de Marzo
4 editions - first published in 1974
Our Town.
4 editions - first published in 1936
Die Brücke von San Luis Rey
4 editions - first published in 1952
Three plays: Our town, The skin of our teeth, The matchmaker
4 editions - first published in 1957 Borrow
The Cabala and The Woman of Andros: Two Novels (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
3 editions - first published in 1968
The angel that troubled the waters: and other plays
3 editions - first published in 1928
Our town ; The skin of our teeth ; The matchmaker
3 editions - first published in 1962
The long Christmas dinner and other plays in one act
3 editions - first published in 1931 Borrow
Love and how to cure it: a play in one act.
3 editions - first published in 1932
Collected Translation And Adaptations of Thornton Wilder
2 editions - first published in 2007
The bridge of San Luis Rey
2 editions - first published in 1965
The happy journey: play in one act
2 editions - first published in 1930
James Joyce, 1882-1941
2 editions - first published in 1944
American characteristics and other essays
2 editions - first published in 1979
The selected letters of Thornton Wilder
2 editions - first published in 2008
The angel that troubled the waters: and other plays
2 editions - first published in 1928
Our town, a play in three acts
2 editions - first published in 1985 Borrow
Collected plays & writings on theater
2 editions - first published in 2007
Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder
2 editions - first published in 1997
The merchant of Yonkers: a farce in four acts
1 edition - first published in 1939
Die Bruecke Von San Luis Rey
1 edition
Theophilus North oder Ein Heiliger wider Willen. Roman
1 edition - first published in 1991
Die Frau aus Andros
1 edition - first published in 1952
Unsere kleine Stadt. CD
1 edition - first published in 2003
Unsere Kleine Stadt
1 edition - first published in 1999
Dem Himmel bin ich auserkoren
1 edition - first published in 1935
American Characteristics: And Other Essays
1 edition - first published in 2000
Theater: Unsere kleine Stadt; Wir sind noch einmal davongekommen.
1 edition - first published in 1955
The stories of Thornton Wilder: The bridge of San Luis Rey, The cabala, The woman of Andros.
1 edition - first published in 1934
Nuestra ciudad (Our town): comedia en tres actos
1 edition - first published in 1971
Wir sind noch einmal davongekommen
1 edition - first published in 1999
Die Cabala
1 edition - first published in 1951
Puente de San Luis Rey, El
1 edition - first published in 1998
Happy Journey To Trenton and Camden
1 edition
3 plays
1 edition - first published in 1998
Die Iden des März
1 edition - first published in 1994
Three Plays
1 edition - first published in 1998
Dem Himmel bin ich auserkoren. Roman
1 edition - first published in 1993
Mr. North
1 edition - first published in 1988
Three Plays: Our Town: The Skin of Our Teeth: The Matchmaker
1 edition - first published in 1994
The Matchmaker A Farce in Four Acts
1 edition - first published in 1958
The Journals
1 edition - first published in 1987
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
1 edition - first published in 1970
OUR TOWN
1 edition
Alcestiad: Or, a Life in the Sun
1 edition - first published in 1979
The Cabala and the Woman of Andros
1 edition - first published in 1968
El octavo día
1 edition - first published in 2013
La cábala
1 edition - first published in 2014
The skin of our teeth
1 edition - first published in 1955
Woman of Andros
1 edition
Heaven's My Destination
1 edition - first published in 1968
Ides of march
1 edition - first published in 1994
The Happy journey
1 edition - first published in 1934
The Cabala
1 edition - first published in 1926
The woman of Andros
1 edition - first published in 1930
Heaven's my destination [Book]
1 edition - first published in 1968
The Ides of March
1 edition - first published in 1948
Three plays
1 edition - first published in 1957
Die Brücke von San Luis Rey. (Königs Erläuterungen und Materialien)
1 edition - first published in 1987
Love and how to cure it: a play in one act
1 edition - first published in 1938
Huai'erde xi ju xuan: Xiao cheng feng guang, Jiu si yi sheng, Yüan yang pei
1 edition - first published in 1965
The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder Volume II
1 edition - first published in 1998
Our town ; The skin of our teeth ; The matchmaker
1 edition - first published in 1962 Borrow
Our town
1 edition - first published in 1975
Three plays
1 edition - first published in 1958
The skin of our teeth
1 edition - first published in 1958
The Journals of Thornton Wilder 1939-1961
1 edition - first published in 1985
The angel that troubled the waters
1 edition - first published in 1928
Heaven's my destiny
1 edition - first published in 1934
The long Christmas dinner, and other plays in one act
1 edition - first published in 1980 Borrow
Three plays by Thornton Wilder
1 edition - first published in 1961 Borrow
Three plays by Thornton Wilder
1 edition - first published in 1961 Borrow
Queens of France: a satiric comedy in one act
1 edition - first published in 1931
The drunken sisters: a comedy in one act
1 edition - first published in 1957
Bridge Of San Luis Rey
1 edition - first published in 2004
The long Christmas dinner and other plays
1 edition - first published in 1931
The journals of Thornton Wilder, 1939-1961
1 edition - first published in 1985 Borrow
The complete text of The matchmaker
1 edition - first published in 1958
Three plays: Our town, The skin of our teeth, The matchmaker. With a pref. [by Thornton Wilder]
1 edition - first published in 1957
The Alcestiad, or, A life in the sun: a play in three acts ; with a satyr play The drunken sisters
1 edition - first published in 1977
Shadow of a doubt: [screenplay]
1 edition
Thornton Wilder and Ken Ludwig's adaptation of The beaux' stratagem by George Farquhar
1 edition - first published in 2007
Childhood, a comedy in one act
1 edition - first published in 1960
Thornton Wilder: Collected Plays and Writings on Theater (Library of America)
1 edition - first published in 2007
Our town ; The skin of out teeth ; The matchmaker
1 edition - first published in 1980
The collected translations and adaptations of Thornton Wilder
1 edition - first published in 2000

Places

Middle West, Peru, Rome, Illinois, New Hampshire, Newport (R.I.), Rome (Italy)

People

Julius Caesar, Thornton Wilder (1897-1975), James Joyce (1882-1941), Adaline Glasheen, Amy Drevenstedt, Brutus, Cicero, Cleopatra, Jules César, Marc Antony, Perichole

Time

20th century, 53-44 B.C., 18th century, 1714

Links (outside Open Library)

Official website

Alternative names

Thornton Niven Wilder
Thornton WILDER
THORNTON WILDER
Wilder, Thornton Niven
Thornton wilder

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