1. Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) American Writer. (18971975) American writer. Thornton Wilder is famous for The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927), Our Town (1938), and The Skin of Our Teeth. Wilder was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for http://classiclit.about.com/od/wilderthornton/Wilder_Thornton.htm

zWASL=1 zGL='0';zGR='ca-about-radlink'; zJs=10 zJs=11 zJs=12 zJs=13 zc(5,'jsc',zJs,9999999,'') zDO=0 Home Education Classic Literature Classic Literature Search Classic Literature Filed In: A-to-Z Writers A-to-Z Writers W - Writers - Last Names (1897-1975) American writer. Thornton Wilder is famous for "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" (1927), "Our Town" (1938), and "The Skin of Our Teeth." Wilder was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for "Our Town." Thornton Wilder was an American writer, who wrote novels and plays. He's well-known for "Our Town" (1938), "The Skin of Our Teeth" (1943), "Shadow of a Doubt" (1943), and "Bridge of San Luis Rey." The Skin of Our Teeth "The Skin of Our Teeth," by Thornton Wilder was published in 1943 to critical and controversial acclaim. The play is a hilarious romp through human experience, taking in many of the prominent voices in literary history; but the play has a darker side as well. zSB(3,3) Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) American writer. Thornton Wilder was a Pulitzer-Prize winning playwright, who is perhaps most famous for his play, "Our Town," which was made into a movie. His most famous works explored the human experience. Read more about Thornton Wilder. The Skin of Our Teeth "The Skin of Our Teeth," by Thornton Wilder was published in 1943 to critical and controversial acclaim. The play is a hilarious romp through human experiencetaking in many of the prominent voices in literary historybut the play has a darker side as well.

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Wilder, Thornton [Niven] (1897-1975) came to Princeton frequently in the early 1920s to browse in the stacks of the old Pyne Library on evenings when he was off duty at Lawrenceville School, where he taught French and was a master of Davis House. He entered the Princeton Graduate School in the fall of 1925 and received an A.M. in Modern Languages here in June 1926. He had previously attended Oberlin and Yale, where he received his A.B. in 1920. He got the idea for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, ``on the winding walk from the golf club to the Graduate College.'' He began to write The Bridge in his rooms on the top floor of the eleventh entry of the Graduate College and finished it in Davis House the following year while teaching again at Lawrenceville. He left this area in 1928. A decade later, in 1938, his first play, Our Town, opened in McCarter Theatre. It won a Pulitzer Prize and became one of the most frequently produced plays in America. He won a third Pulitzer Prize in 1943 for his play The Skin of Our Teeth.

3. Thornton Wilder - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Retrieved 201006-18. ^ Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Novels 1926–1948. ISBN 978-1-59853-045-2. http//www.loa.org/volume.jsp?RequestID=306. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thornton_Wilder

Thornton Wilder From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding reliable references . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed (August 2010) This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding reliable references . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed (August 2010) Thornton Wilder Thornton Wilder as Mr. Antrobus in The Skin of Our Teeth photographed by Carl Van Vechten , 18 August 1948 Born Thornton Niven Wilder April 17, 1897 Madison Wisconsin United States Died December 7, 1975 Hamden Connecticut United States Occupation Playwright novelist Notable award(s) Pulitzer Prize for the Novel Pulitzer Prize for Drama National Book Award for Fiction Partner(s) Samuel Steward Thornton Niven Wilder (April 17, 1897 — December 7, 1975) 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 Contents Early years Education Career Personal life ... edit Early years Thornton Wilder as a child, pictured with his two sisters and his father Amos at family cottage at

4. Wilder, Thornton. Our Town. Author Wilder, Thornton. Title Our Town. Plot Summary Our Town is a book about a play about a small town called Grover's Corner in New Hampshire. http://www.littletonps.org/schools/highold/Library/student.reviews/Reviews/Wilde

Author Wilder, Thornton Title Our Town Plot Summary: Our Town is a book about a play about a small town called Grover's Corner in New Hampshire. It takes place in 1901-1913. It is mostly about characters Emily Webb and George Gibbs. The first act is about when the two are still in high school and they fall in love. The second act takes place three years later and is about their wedding day and the cold feet before the wedding and a flashback to when they knew they were going to get married one day. The third act takes place nine years later than the second act and is about a bad thing that happens to one of them but both suffer and something good comes out of it. Review: The characters come alive a little in this story but its kind of hard to believe because everything seems too perfect, the kids are too nice and they seem like some of those characters in a 50's sitcom where the kids are perfect. After reading Our Town my insight was they knew their town wasn't a big city and not much happened there but they didn't mind much and most didn't have a desire to leave the town. I think the style of the book was a little weird when it said the book was a play about a play and that confused me a little at first until I understood. Genre Miscellaneous Quality: Popularity: (On a scale of one to five with five being the best.)

5. Thornton Wilder Society Dedicated to the legacy of the author. Includes a newsletter, events calendar, and educational resources. http://www.thorntonwildersociety.org/

6. Thornton Wilder Society Welcome to the official Thornton Wilder Society Web site, dedicated to preserving and expanding the legacy of Thornton Wilder, a three time Pulitzer Prize winner and the only http://www.tcnj.edu/~wilder/

7. Thornton Niven Wilder — FactMonster.com Encyclopedia Wilder, Thornton Niven. Wilder, Thornton Niven, 1897–1975, American playwright and novelist, b. Madison, Wis., grad. Yale (B.A., 1920) and Princeton (M.A., 1925). http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/people/A0852251.html

Home U.S. People Word Wise ... Homework Center Fact Monster Favorites American Indian Heritage Month Math Flashcards Geography Guide Seven New Wonders of the World ... The Fifty States Reference Desk Atlas Almanacs Dictionary Encyclopedia ... Encyclopedia Wilder, Thornton Niven Wilder, Thornton Niven, Wilder's first important literary work was the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927; Pulitzer Prize), which probes the lives of victims of a bridge disaster in Peru. Among his other novels are The Cabala The Woman of Andros Heaven's My Destination The Ides of March The Eighth Day (1967), an old-fashioned saga about two families that is also a mystery story and an exploration of chance and human destiny; and Theophilus North (1973), a comic account of the experiences of an unusual young man living in Newport, R.I., during the summer of 1929. Although he had written one-act plays, published in The Angel That Troubled the Waters (1928) and The Long Christmas Dinner (1931), Wilder did not achieve critical recognition as a playwright until the production of Our Town (1938; Pulitzer Prize). Perhaps the most familiar and most frequently produced of all American plays, it relates a panoramic story of unexceptional, yet universally recognizable people in Grover's Corners, N.H.

8. Thornton Wilder Biography, summaries of selected works and bibliography. http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/twilder.htm

Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D ... Z by birthday from the calendar Credits and feedback TimeSearch for Books and Writers by Bamber Gascoigne Thornton (Niven) Wilder (1897-1975) American writer and playwright, best known for the Pulitzer Prize awarded play OUR TOWN (1938). Wilder's breakthrough novel was THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY (1927), an examination of justice and altruism. The story focused on the fates of five travelers in the 18-century Peru, who happen to be crossing the finest bridge in the land when it breaks and throws them into the gulf below. A scholarly monk, Brother Juniper, interprets the story of each victim in an attempt to explain the working of divine providence. Surely, he argues, if there were any plan in the universe at all, if there were any pattern in human life, it could be discovered mysteriously latent in the lives of those particular people. But his book being done the text is pronounced heretical and and both Juniper and his work are burned by the Inquisition. "But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning."

9. Wilder, Thornton Definition Of Wilder, Thornton In The Free Online Encyclopedia. Wilder, Thornton (Niven) (born April 17, 1897, Madison, Wis., U.S.—died Dec. 7, 1975, Hamden, Conn.) U.S. playwright and novelist. After attending Yale University, Wilder studied http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Wilder, Thornton

10. Wilder, Thornton - Definition From Longman English Dictionary Online Definition of Wilder, Thornton from the Longman Online Dictionary of Contemporary English. The Longman English Dictionary provides support and resources for those who want to http://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/Wilder-Thornton

11. Thornton Wilder (1897 - 1975) - Find A Grave Memorial Photographic portraits, pictures from Mount Carmel Cemetery in Hamden, Connecticut, brief information on life and death, and interactive visitor comments from Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=1103

12. Wilder, Thornton | Define Wilder, Thornton At Dictionary.com Cultural Dictionary Wilder, Thornton definition A twentiethcentury American author best known for his play Our Town http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Wilder, Thornton

13. Thornton Wilder - Complete Guide To The Playwright, Plays, Theatres, Agent Biography of Thornton Wilder. Thornton Wilder. Born in Madison, Wisconsin, and educated at Oberlin, Yale (B.A. 1920) and Princeton (M.A. 1925), Thornton Wilder was an accomplished http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsW/wilder-thornton.html

The Playwrights Database Search for a Playwright : a b c d ... z To purchase any of the published plays by Thornton Wilder click on one of the bookstore links below. doollee receives a small commission on purchases which helps towards running costs and keeps the site free to all AbeBooks.co.uk AbeBooks.com Internet Theatre Bookshop amazon.com ... amazon.ca Biography of Thornton Wilder web doollee.com Home Playwrights Plays Characters ... About Doollee Click on a Play title below for more information Alcestiad, The Beaux' Stratagem, The Bernice Cement Hands ... Youth THORNTON WILDER (1897 - 1975) Nationality USA Literary Agent: n/a Email n/a Website Click here to visit If shown, click on the literary agent's name for full contact details and links to all the Playwrights they represent. Plays by Thornton Wilder THORNTON WILDER Alcestiad, The 1st Produced Company 1st Published Contained in: "Alcestaid and The Drunken Sisters" published by Samuel French Inc, New York ISBN/ASIN To Buy This Play If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise AbeBooks.com

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15. Our Town - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Wilder, Thornton (1938). Our Town A Play in Three Acts. New York Coward McCann, Inc.. pp. 128 pp. OCLC 773139; External links. Our Town at the Internet Broadway Database http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Town

Our Town From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search For other uses, see Our Town (disambiguation) Our Town 1938 first edition cover from the Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division Written by Thornton Wilder Characters Stage Manager Mrs. Myrtle Webb Mr. Charles Webb George Gibbs Emily Webb Mrs. Julia Gibbs Dr. Frank F. Gibbs Simon Stimson Mrs. Soames Joe Crowell, Jr. Howie Newsome Rebecca Gibbs Wally Webb Professor Willard Woman in the Balcony Man in the Auditorium Lady in the Box Mrs. Louella Soames Constable Warren Si Crowell Three Baseball Players Sam Craig Joe Stoddard Date premiered 4 February 1938 Place premiered Henry Miller's Theatre New York City, New York Original language English Subject Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. Genre Drama Setting 1901 to 1913. Grover's Corners, New Hampshire near Massachusetts. IBDB profile Our Town is a three-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder . It is a character story about an average town's citizens in the early twentieth century as depicted through their everyday lives (particularly George Gibbs, a doctor's son, and Emily Webb, the daughter of the town's newspaper editor and George's future wife). Using metatheatrical devices, Wilder sets the play in a

16. Wilder, Thornton - Fun Facts And Information Fun Facts about Wilder Thornton. Interesting factoids, information and answers. http://www.funtrivia.com/en/Literature/Wilder-Thornton-11324.html

Fun Trivia Quizzes Games People ... Challenge List Welcome to our world of fun trivia quizzes and quiz games: New Player Play Now! Fun Trivia Wilder, Thornton Structure Sub-topic of: Authors T-Z Quizzes Interesting Questions, Facts and Information There are a total of general entries. Special Topics The Skin of Our Teeth Even Tougher "Our Town" Trivia A Journey to "Our Town" The Bridge of San Luis Rey Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information Wilder, Thornton What time does the Stage Manager say it is at the very end of the play? Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" Quiz Eleven o'clock . Stage Manager: "Hm...eleven o'clock in Grover's Corners. Everybody's resting in Grover's Corners. Tomorrow's going to be another day. You get a good rest too. Good night." Who is Grover's Corners' richest citizen? Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" Quiz Mr. Cartwright . Mr. Cartwright owns the first car in Grover's Corners, and is the owner of the bank and the textile mill. How many churches are there in Grover's Corners? Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" Quiz . They are: Catholic, Congregational, Presbyterian, Methodist, Unitarian, and Baptist. Who is the owner of the soda shop where George and Emily realize that they are in love?

17. Wilder, Thornton Niven Wilder, Thornton Niven Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009. Read Wilder, Thornton Niven at Questia library. http://www.questia.com/read/117053118

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Home Browse by author A B C D ... Z Other books The Bridge of San Luis Rey: A Novel Book (HarperCollins) List Price: Price: You Save: Narration: Four Lectures Book (University Of Chicago Press) List Price: Price: Thornton Wilder:The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Novels 1926-1948 (Library of America No. 194) Book (The Library of America) List Price: Price: You Save: The Ides of March: A Novel Book (Harper Perennial) List Price: Price: You Save: The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder Book (Harper) List Price: Price: You Save: Our Town: A Play in Three Acts Book (Samuel French, Inc.) List Price: Price: Wilder Thornton Our Town: A Play in Three Acts List Price: Price: Description Customer Reviews No complaints. Considering how long it took me to get around to ordering my textbooks, I was pleasantly surprised to receive my book so promptly and in such great condition. Life is fleeting "Live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip." ~Will Rogers I have never read or seen this play so I didn't have any expectations going into it. I am on the fence. There is so little that happens that you really don't care about the characters; however, Wilder does such a good job of expressing emotion and getting you to think with so few words, that's it hard not to like. It's amazing how different this play is when compared to his novel, The Bridge of San Luis Rey. It really shows Wilder's talent and diverse writing style. I did like how the play skipped around in time, going forward to the future, and then back in time to give some background information. I also enjoyed how the stage manager would interrupt a scene and talk directly to the cast. I am sure that brings comic relief on the stage.

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