Thornton Wilder
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican playwright and novelist (1897-1975)
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Thornton Niven Wilder 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.
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Wilder with two of his siblings and their father Amos at the family cottage in Maple Bluff, Wisconsin in 1900
Wilder in his 1920 Yale College graduation photo
Frank Craven, Martha Scott, and John Craven in the original Broadway production of Our Town, published in 1938, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Wilder as Mr. Antrobus in The Skin of Our Teeth in 1948
Wilder on the cover of the January 12, 1953 issue of Time magazine
Thorton N Wilder's gravestone, Hamden, ConnecticutAwards 10
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About this person
Country
United StatesCategory
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1897 to 1975 · aged 78
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