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Thornton Wilder

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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Born 17 April 1897
Died 7 December 1975

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  • Cover of: The Best plays of 1937-38: and the year book of the drama in America

    Cover of edition bestplaysof1937300mant First published in 1938 — 5 editions
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  • Cover of: Prentice Hall Literature: The American Experience

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  • Cover of: Theophilus North

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  • Cover of: Die Brücke von San Luis Rey

    First published in 1952 — 4 editions
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  • Cover of: All the world's a stage

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  • Cover of: The Eighth Day

    First published in 1967 — 4 editions
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  • Cover of: The Ides of March

    First published in 1949 — 4 editions
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  • Cover of: Our Town.

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  • Cover of: Three plays: Our town, The skin of our teeth, The matchmaker.

    First published in 1957 — 4 editions
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  • Cover of: Contemporary Drama: Eleven Plays: American - English - European

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  • Cover of: The Long Christmas dinner and other plays in one act

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  • Cover of: The Ides of March

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  • Cover of: The Woman of Andros

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  • Cover of: Long Christmas Dinner and Other Plays in One Act

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  • Cover of: Cabala and the Woman of Andros: Two Novels

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  • Cover of: Our town ; The skin of our teeth ; The matchmaker

    First published in 1962 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: The Cabala and The Woman of Andros: Two Novels (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

    First published in 1968 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Love and how to cure it: a play in one act

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Born 17 April 1897
Died 7 December 1975

Subjects

Drama, American drama (dramatic works by one author), American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, History, American drama, Drama (dramatic works by one author), Wilder, thornton, 1897-1975, American Authors, American literature, City and town life, Fiction, general, Literature, One-act plays, Plays, Death, Large type books, Alcestis (Greek mythology), American, Classic, Classic Literature, Collections, Correspondence, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 12

Places

Peru, England, Israel, Rome, United States, Alabama, Andover, Barbados, China, Eastern Europe, Florida, Fountain of Youth, Mallard residence, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Middle West, Milford meeting house, New Hampshire, Newport (R.I.), Owl Creek Bridge, Salem, Salem (Mass.), South America, Soviet Union, Algonquin

People

Thornton Wilder (1897-1975), Julius Caesar, Abigail Williams, Ann Putnam, Arthur Miller (1915-), Betty Parris, Brently Mallard, Bridget Bishop, Colonel Killigrew, Devil, Dr. Heidegger, Elizabeth, Elizabeth Proctor, Ezekiel Cheever, George Herrick, George Jacobs, Giles Corey, God, James Joyce (1882-1941), John Hale, John Hathorne, John Proctor, Josephine, Louise Mallard, Martha Corey

Time

20th century, 1692, 1861-1865, 1861-65, 19th century, 53-44 B.C., American Civil War, Civil War, 1861-1865, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, 1714, 1885 to 1905, 18th Century / 20th Century, 18th century, 1912, 20th Century: 53-44 B.C., 53 B.C.-44 B.C, December

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Alternative names

  • Thornton Niven Wilder
  • Thornton WILDER
  • THORNTON WILDER
  • Wilder, Thornton Niven
  • Thornton wilder
  • Wilder. Thornton
  • Wilder Thornton (Signed)
  • Thornton; Thornton Wilder (Author and Preface by) Wilder
  • thornton wilder
  • Thornton (1897-1975) Wilder

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August 18, 2023 Edited by Salar Abdolmohamadian merge authors
July 7, 2023 Edited by Salar Abdolmohamadian merge authors
September 30, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
March 31, 2017 Edited by MARC Bot add VIAF and wikidata ID
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import