Thornton Wilder
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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. N
Wilder in 1948
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
The Skin of Our Teeth
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The Skin of Our Teeth is a play by Thornton Wilder that won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It opened on October 15, 1942, at the Shubert Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut, before moving to the Plymouth
Thornton Wilder
…1975) 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. Wilder was born in Madison, Wisconsin, the son of Amos Parker Wilder, a newspaper editor…
Handbill for the 1942 Broadway production. Artwork by Don Freeman.
Wilder as Mr. Antrobus in 1948