Thornton Wilder
American playwright and novelist (1897-1975) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 78
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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1975Died7 December 19751974James Madison MedalAward1968National Book AwardAward1963Presidential Medal of FreedomAward1959Austrian Decoration for Science and ArtAwardGoethe Plaque of the City of FrankfurtAward1957Peace Prize of the German Publishers' and Booksellers' AssociationAward1943Pulitzer Prize for DramaAward1938Pulitzer Prize for DramaAward1897Born17 April 1897
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Alfred Hitchcock Directed Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Sam Wood Directed Our Town (1940)
David McCullough Influenced by Thornton
Charles Brabin Directed The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1929)
Rowland V. Lee Directed The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1944)
Sol Lesser Produced Our Town (1940)
Harald Braun Directed Unsere kleine Stadt (1954)- Fred Coe Produced Our Town (1955)
Benedict Bogeaus Produced The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1944)
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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
About this person
Country
United States
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1897 to 1975 · aged 78
