Thornton Wilder
Thornton Niven Wilder (April 17, 1897 – December 7, 1975) was an American playwright and novelist. He won three Pulitzer Prizes—for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and for the two 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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... Kaufman Here Today - George Oppenheimer Our Town - Thornton Wilder The Petrified Forest - Robert Sherwood Petticoat Fever - Mark Reed White Oaks – Mazo de la Roche 1940 Ah, Wilderness - Eugene O’Nei ... Sidney Howard The Skin of our Teeth - Thornton Wilder The Torchbearers – George Kelly 1949 The Corn Is Green - Emlyn Williams The Heiress - Ruth and Augustus Goetz The Importance of ... Song - Martines Sierra The Matchmaker - Thornton Wilder The Mousetrap - Agatha Christie Noah - Andre Obey, Adapted by Arthur Wilmurt No Time For Sergeants - Ira Levin, Based on the novel by Mac Hyman The ...
... Leslie Henson 15 May 1945 The Skin of Our Teeth Sabina Phoenix Theatre Thornton Wilder Laurence Olivier Cecil Parker and Joan Young 11 September 1946 The Skin of Our ...
1958 A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller The Matchmaker by Thornton Wilder Legends of Lovers by Jean Anouilh The Burnt Flower Bed by Ugo Betti An Evening of Tennessee Williams Autio-Da-Fe, The Case of the ... Moon by Jean Anouilh The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden by Thornton Wilder Bedtime Story by Sean O'Casey As You Like It 1954 Camino Real by Tennessee Williams Right You Are by Luigi ...
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“The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.”
—Thornton Wilder (1897–1975)
“He’s leaving Germany by special request of the Nazi government. First he sends a dispatch about Danzig and how 10,000 German tourists are pouring into the city every day with butterfly nets in their hands and submachine guns in their knapsacks. They warn him right then. What does he do next? Goes to a reception at von Ribbentropf’s and keeps yelling for gefilte fish!”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)