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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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American playwright and novelist (1897–1975)

Born 17 April 1897
Died 7 December 1975

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  • Cover of: long Christmas dinner and other plays

    First published in 1931 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: The Matchmaker A Farce in Four Acts

    First published in 1958 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: The merchant of Yonkers: a farce in four acts

    First published in 1939 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Mr. North

    First published in 1988 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Nuestra ciudad (Our town): comedia en tres actos

    First published in 1971 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Our Century: a play in three scenes

    First published in 1947 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Our town ; The skin of out teeth ; The matchmaker

    First published in 1980 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: plays of Thornton Wilder: a critical study.

    First published in 1968 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Puente de San Luis Rey, El

    First published in 1998 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Queens of France: a satiric comedy in one act

    First published in 1931 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Shadow of a doubt: [screenplay]

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  • Cover of: Theater.: Unsere kleine Stadt; Wir sind noch einmal davongekommen.

    First published in 1955 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Theophilus North (A Cass Canfield book)

    First published in 1973 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Theophilus North oder Ein Heiliger wider Willen. Roman.

    First published in 1991 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Thornton Wilder: Collected Plays and Writings on Theater (Library of America)

    First published in 2007 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Thornton Wilder and Ken Ludwig's adaptation of The beaux' stratagem by George Farquhar.

    First published in 2007 1 edition in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Three Plays: Our Town: The Skin of Our Teeth: The Matchmaker

    First published in 1994 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Three plays: Our town, The skin of our teeth, The matchmaker. With a pref. [by Thornton Wilder]

    First published in 1957 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Three Plays

    First published in 1998 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: A tour of the Darkling Plain: the Finnegans wake letters of Thornton Wilder and Adaline Glasheen

    First published in 2001 1 edition in 1 language
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American playwright and novelist (1897–1975)

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, Wilder, thornton, 1897-1975, Drama (dramatic works by one author), American Authors, City and town life, Fiction, general, One-act plays, Plays, American literature, Death, Large type books, Literature, Alcestis (Greek mythology), American, Classic, Classic Literature, Collections, Correspondence, Social life and customs, Study and teaching
Places
Peru, United States, Alabama, England, Florida, Fountain of Youth, Israel, Mallard residence, Middle West, Milford meeting house, New Hampshire, Newport (R.I.), Owl Creek Bridge, Rome, South America, Algonquin, Andover, Barbados, Boston, China, Eastern Europe, Latin America, London, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Bay Colony
People
Thornton Wilder (1897-1975), Julius Caesar, Brently Mallard, Colonel Killigrew, Dr. Heidegger, Elizabeth, James Joyce (1882-1941), Josephine, Louise Mallard, Mr. Gascoigne, Mr. Hooper, Mr. Medbourne, Peyton Farquhar, Richards, Sylvia Ward, Widow Wycherley, Abigail Williams, Adaline Glasheen, Alfred Doolittle, Amanda Wingfield, Amy Drevenstedt, Ann Putnam, Arthur Miller (1915-), Bernard, Betty Parris
Time
20th century, 1861-1865, 19th century, 53-44 B.C., American Civil War, Civil War, 1861-1865, 1692, 1714, 1861-65, 1885 to 1905, 18th Century / 20th Century, 18th century, 1912, 20th Century: 53-44 B.C., Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, December

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  • Thornton WILDER
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  • Wilder, Thornton Niven
  • Thornton wilder
  • Wilder. Thornton
  • Wilder Thornton (Signed)
  • Thornton; Thornton Wilder (Author and Preface by) Wilder
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  • 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