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A Short Biography of Thornton Wilder

Author Name:

Thornton Wilder

Born As:

Thornton Niven Wilder

Other Names:

Born:

17 Apr 1897

Died:

7 Dec 1975




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Dramatist and novelist                          
Selected  Works:

Plays:

The Trumpet Shall Sound - 1926
An Angel That Troubled the Waters and Other Plays - 1928

The Long Christmas Dinner and Other Plays in One Act - 1931:
The Long Christmas Dinner
Queens of France
Pullman Car Hiawatha
Love and How to Cure It
Such Things Only Happen in Books
The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden

Our Town - 1938 – Pulitzer Prize
The Merchant of Yonkers - 1938
The Skin of Our Teeth - 1942 – Pulitzer Prize
The Matchmaker - 1954 - revised from The Merchant of Yonkers
The Alcestiad: Or, A Life In The Sun - 1955
Childhood - 1960
Infancy - 1960
Plays for Bleecker Street - 1962
The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder Volume I - 1997:
The Long Christmas Dinner
Queens of France
Pullman Car Hiawatha
Love and How to Cure It
Such Things Only Happen in Books
The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden
The Drunken Sisters
Bernice
The Wreck on the Five-Twenty-Five
A Ringing of Doorbells
In Shakespeare and the Bible
Someone from Assisi
Cement Hands
Infancy
Childhood
Youth
The Rivers Under the Earth

Novels:

The Cabala - 1926
The Bridge of San Luis Rey - 1927 – Pulitzer Prize
The Woman of Andros - 1930, based on the Andria - comedy of Terence.
Heaven's My Destination - 1935
Ides of March - 1948
The Eighth Day - 1967
Theophilus North - 1973

Collections:

Wilder, Thornton - 2007. Thornton Wilder, Collected Plays and Writings on Theater.
                          
Mother Isabella Niven Wilder
Father Amos Parker Wilder