Thornton Wilder (1897–1975)
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One of the most honored and versatile of modern writers, Thornton Wilder combined a career as a successful novelist with work for the theater that made him one of this century's outstanding dramatists. It was an early short novel, however, that first brought him fame. The Bridge of San Luis Rey mostra altro (1927), a bestseller that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1927, is the story of a group of assorted people who happen to be on a bridge in Peru when it collapses. Ingeniously constructed and rich in its philosophical implications about fate and synchronicity, Wilder's book would seem to be the first well-known example of a formula that has become a cliche in popular literature. His attraction to classical themes is manifested in The Woman of Andros (1930), a tragedy about young love in pre-Christian Greece, and The Ides of March (1948), set in the time of Julius Caesar and told in letters and documents covering a long span of years. Heaven's My Destination (1934), is a seriocomic and picaresque story about a young book salesman traveling through the Midwest during the early years of the Great Depression.Theophilus North (1973), Wilder's last novel, disappointed many reviewers, but it provided its author with opportunities to offer some wry observations on the life of the idle rich in Newport during the summer of 1926 and to ponder in the story of his alter ego what might have happened if Wilder had stayed home, so to speak, instead of becoming Thornton Wilder. As a serious writer of fiction, Wilder's main claim rests on The Eighth Day (1967), an intellectual thriller, which the N.Y. Times called "the most substantial fiction of his career." It won the National Book Award for fiction in 1968. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Thornton Wilder
Thornton Wilder: Collected Plays and Writings on Theater (Library of America) (2007) 191 copie, 3 recensioni
Thornton Wilder: The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Novels 1926-1948 (2009) 163 copie, 1 recensione
Thornton Wilder: The Eighth Day / Theophilus North / Autobiographical Writings (2012) 105 copie, 1 recensione
The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Thornton Wilder (Henry McBride Series in Modernism and Mo) (1996) 42 copie
Il cielo è il mio destino 4 copie
Drammi brevi 3 copie
Plays 2 copie
Love, and How to Cure It 2 copie
Obras escogidas 2 copie
Piccola città 1 copia
Atti in tre minuti 1 copia
Le pont du roi saint Louis 1 copia
Insurgent 1 copia
La donna di Andro: romanzo 1 copia
A ponte de São Luis Rei 1 copia
Our Town (HHH Production) — Autore — 1 copia
Aštuntoji diena: [romanas] 1 copia
L'Ottavo giorno 1 copia
Our Town by Thornton Wilder Published by Scholastic Paperbacks 1st (first) edition (1989) Paperback 1 copia
The Stories of Thornton Wilder 1 copia
Idi di marzo 1 copia
EL PUENTE DE SAN LUS REY 1 copia
Shadow of a Doubt 1 copia
Such Things Only Happen in Books 1 copia
The Penny That Beauty Spent 1 copia
Brother Fire 1 copia
Fanny Otcott 1 copia
Proserpina and the Devil 1 copia
Nascuntur Poetæ 1 copia
Stories and Essays 1 copia
Thornton Wilder Stories — Autore — 1 copia
Autumn Thunder 1 copia
The Message and Jehanne 1 copia
Centaurs 1 copia
Thornton WIlder's Our Town (featuring translated passages by Nilo Cruz and Jeff Augustin) (2020) 1 copia
Leviathan 1 copia
Thirteen Plays 1 copia
The Flight into Egypt 1 copia
Mozart and the Gray Steward 1 copia
Oom Pio en Camila Perichole 1 copia
Opere correlate
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Collaboratore — 134 copie, 1 recensione
Playwrights on Playwriting: The Meaning and Making of Modern Drama from Ibsen to Ionesco (1960) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 111 copie, 2 recensioni
Gentlemen, Scholars and Scoundrels: A Treasury of the Best of Harper's Magazine from 1850 to the Present (1972) — Collaboratore — 56 copie
Twenty One-Act Plays: An Anthology for Amateur Performing Groups (1978) — Collaboratore — 37 copie, 1 recensione
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 3: Intelligent Family Living (1967) — Collaboratore — 33 copie
Amerikanische Kurzgeschichten (American Short Stories) (English and German Edition) (1956) — Collaboratore — 10 copie
Best-in-Books: Treasure of Pleasant Valley / Best of H.T. Webster / Bridge of San Luis Rey / Think Fast Mr. Moto /… (1956) — Collaboratore — 4 copie
The long Christmas dinner : (Das lange Weihnachtsmahl) : opera in one act ; Libretto by Thornton Wilder (1961) — Autore — 2 copie
Teatro Norteamericano contemporaneo — Collaboratore — 2 copie
The Bridge of San Luis Rey [1944 film] — Original novel — 1 copia
Teatru American Contemporan vol. 1 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
A Teacher's Guide to Our Town: Common-Core Aligned Teacher Materials and a Sample Chapter (2015) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Wilder, Thornton
- Nome legale
- Wilder, Thornton Niven
- Data di nascita
- 1897-04-17
- Data di morte
- 1975-12-07
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Mount Carmel Cemetery, Hamden, Connecticut, USA
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Madison, Wisconsin, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Hamden, Connecticut, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Chefoo, China
Ojai, California, USA
Berkeley, California, USA
Douglas, Arizona, USA
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Hamden, Connecticut, USA - Istruzione
- Princeton University (MA|French|1926)
Yale University (BA|1920)
Oberlin College
American Academy in Rome
Berkeley High School
Creekside Middle School (mostra tutto 8)
China Inland Mission Chefoo School
The Thacher School - Attività lavorative
- playwright
novelist
professor
translator
librettist
teacher (mostra tutto 12)
screenwriter
short-story writer
essayist
corporal (U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps, WWI)
lieutenant colonel (U.S. Army Air Force Intelligence, WWII)
actor - Relazioni
- Wilder, Amos Niven (brother)
Wilder, Isabel (sister)
Dakin, Janet Wilder (sister)
Wilder, A. Tappan (nephew)
Wilder, Charlotte (sister) - Organizzazioni
- American Academy of Arts and Letters
Modern Language Association of America (honorary member)
Authors Guild
Actors Equity Association
Hispanic Society of America (corresponding member)
Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur (West Germany) (mostra tutto 20)
Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts (honorary member)
Century Association
Players (honorary member)
Graduate Club
Elizabethan Club
Alpha Delta Phi
United States Army (WWI ∙ WWII)
Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton professor)
University of Chicago (professor)
Institut de Cooperation Intellectuélle ( [1937])
United States Department of State
International PEN Club Congress ( [1941])
UNESCO Conference of Arts ( [1952])
Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, New Jersey, USA (teacher) - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Presidential Medal of Freedom (1963)
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1927)
Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1938, 1943)
Chevalier, Legion of Honor (1951)
National Book Committee's National Medal for Literature (1965)
Edward MacDowell Medal (1960) (mostra tutto 21)
National Book Award for fiction (1968)
Peace Prize of the German Book Trade (1957)
Friedenspreis, Deutschen Buchhandels (1957)
Sonderpreis (1959)
Goethe medal (1959)
Gold Medal for Fiction, American Academy of Arts and Letters (1952)
Brandeis University Creative Arts Award for theater and film (1959-60)
Chicago Literary Hall of Fame (2013)
Medal of the Order of Merit (Peru)
Order of Merit (West Germany)
Century Association Art Medal
Honorary member of Order of the British Empire (M.B.E.)
Legion of Merit
Bronze Star
Alpha Delta Phi - Breve biografia
- Thornton Wilder was born on April 17, 1897 in Madison, Wisconsin to Isabella (Niven) Wilder and Amos Parker Wilder. He attended Oberlin College (1915-1917), received an A.B. from Yale University (1920), attended the American Academy in Rome (1920-1921), and received an A.M. from Princeton University (1926). He served in the U.S. Army from 1942-1945, receiving the Legion of Merit and Bronze Star.
Wilder is best known as an author of novels, plays, and screenplays. Among his many published novels and plays, he wrote three Pulitzer Prize winning works: The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1928), Our Town (1938), and The Skin of Our Teeth (1943). He also won the Gold Medal for fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1952), the Presidential Medal of Freedom (1963), the National Book Committee's National Medal for Literature (1965), and the National Book Award (1968).
Wilder was a lecturer in comparative literature at the University of Chicago (1930-1936), a visiting professor at the University of Hawaii (1935), and Charles Eliot Norton Professor of poetry at Harvard University (1950-1951).
Wilder received honorary degrees from New York University, Yale University, Kenyon College, College of Wooster, Harvard University, Northeastern University, Oberlin College, University of New Hampshire, and University of Zurich.
Thornton Wilder died in 1975
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