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		Thornton Wilder (April 17, 1897 - December 7, 1975) was an American writer.
		Born Thornton Niven Wilder in Madison, Wisconsin, he was the author of Our Town, a popular play (and later film) set in a small New England town; it won the 1938 Pulitzer Prize.
		Wilder was interred in the Mount Carmel Cemetery in Hamden, Connecticut.
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	Thornton Wilder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Born Thornton Niven Wilder in Madison, Wisconsin, he was the son of Amos Parker Wilder a U.S. diplomat, and Isabella Niven Wilder.
		Wilder's older brother, Amos Niven Wilder was Hollis Professor of Divinity at the Harvard Divinity School and a noted poet.
		Wilder began writing plays while at The Thacher School in Ojai, California, where he did not fit in and was teased by classmates as overly intellectual.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thornton_Wilder (1025 words)

	Thornton Wilder - MSN Encarta
		Thornton Wilder (1897-1975), American author, whose plays and novels, usually based on allegories and myths, have reached a worldwide audience through various versions.
		Thornton Niven Wilder was born in Madison, Wisconsin, and educated at Oberlin College and Yale University.
		One of Wilder's most successful works, The Matchmaker (1954), derived ultimately from a 19th-century Austrian comedy, was made into a motion picture in 1958 and adapted in 1964 as the musical comedy Hello, Dolly!, which was filmed in turn in 1969.
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	Masterpiece Theatre \| American Collection \| Our Town \| Essays + Interviews \| Thornton Wilder
		Thornton Niven Wilder was born in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1897.
		Wilder's mother was a cultured, educated woman who instilled a love of literature, drama, and languages in her children.
		Wilder is believed to have had one or two affairs with younger men, but he never publicly addressed his sexuality and the subject of sexuality was largely absent from his work.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/masterpiece/americancollection/ourtown/ei_wilder.html (1187 words)

	Thornton Wilder
		Wilder's breakthrough novel was THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY (1927), an examination of justice and altruism.
		Thornton Wilder was born in Madison, Wisconsin, as one of five children of Amos Parker Wilder, a newspaper editor, diplomat, and a strict Calvinist, and Isabella (Niven) Wilder.
		Wilder died on December 7, 1975, Hamden, Connecticut, where he had lived off and on for many years with his devoted sister, secretary, business manager, and literary adviser, Isabel Wilder.
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	Thornton Wilder
		Amos Parker Wilder, a newspaper owner and editor, was U.S. consul general to Hong Kong and Shanghai, while Wilder's older brother, Amos Niven, was a well regarded professor of New Testament scholarship, an inspirational essayist, and a distinguished poet.
		The youngest Wilder sibling, Janet Wilder Dakin, was a professor of biology, an author, and a noted environmentalist.
		By the time Thornton Wilder died on December 7, 1975, at his home in Hamden, Connecticut, he was already an American icon, an internationally famous playwright, and a novelist.
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	Wilder, Thornton Niven - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		WILDER, THORNTON NIVEN [Wilder, Thornton Niven] 1897-1975, American playwright and novelist, b.
		Wilder taught in colleges and universities in the United States and Europe; he was (1950-51) Charles E. Norton professor of poetry at Harvard.
		Wilder's first important literary work was the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927; Pulitzer), which probes the lives of victims of a bridge disaster in Peru.
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	The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Thornton Wilder Society)
		Thornton Wilder's second novel, THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY, was published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim.
		Wilder populated his novel with an interesting cast of characters.
		Describing the sources of his novel, Wilder explained that the plot was inspired "in its external action by a one-act play by [the French playwright] Prosper Merimee, which takes place in Latin America and one of whose characters is a courtesan.
	www.tcnj.edu /~wilder/works/bridge.html (683 words)

	Biography
		Wilder's breakthrough novel was THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY (1927), an examination of justice and altruism in 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.
		Thornton Wilder was born in Madison, Wisconsin, as one of five children of Amos Parker Wilder, a newspaper editor and diplomat, and Isabella (Niven) Wilder.
		Early in WW II Wilder enlisted in the army, and eventually became a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force.
	www.geocities.com /SoHo/Den/1151/wilder/biography.htm (758 words)

	Gay Bears: Thornton Wilder
		Wilder was transferred to Shanghai, the family briefly rejoined him, but eventually returned to settle in Berkeley.
		Thornton Wilder attended Emerson Grammar School (in the Elmwood District), and began high school at the exclusive Thacher School in Ojai.
		Unlike her husband, Isabella Wilder was artistic and worldly, and she made certain that she and her children took full advantage of the benefits of living in a university town.
	sunsite.berkeley.edu /gaybears/wilder (1283 words)

	Today in History: April 17
		Arguably one of the greatest playwrights of the twentieth century, Wilder is the only writer to win Pulitzer Prizes for both literature and drama.
		Wilder authored seven novels, three plays, as well as a variety of shorter works including essays, one act plays, and scholarly articles.
		Wilder is just one of 39 authors photographed by Carl Van Vechten and available in Creative Americans: Portraits by Van Vechten, 1932-1964.
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	Thornton Wilder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Novelist and playwright Thornton Wilder was born in Madison, Wisconsin on April 17, 1897.
		Wilder attended Oberlin College and Yale University and received his master's degree from Princeton in 1926.
		Wilder was a playwright as well as a novelist.
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	WFU to Host Thornton Wilder Symposium
		She spent the past year as Thornton Wilder Visiting Fellow at the Beinecke Library at Yale University and has received a 1998 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship to support her work on Wilder.
		Co-editor of "The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder," she holds a doctorate in history from the University of Wisconsin.
		Thornton Wilder received his first Pulitzer Prize in 1927 for his novel, "The Bridge of San Luis Rey." He received his second in 1938 for the play, "Our Town," and won a third Pulitzer Prize for the play,"The Skin of Our Teeth," in 1942.
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	Our Town, Thornton Wilder - HarperAcademic
		Born on April 17, 1897 in Madison, Wisconsin, Wilder was raised by a demanding and morally domineering father, Amos Parker Wilder, a newspaper editor.
		Wilder won the Pulitzer Prize in1928 for this work, earning enough money from the royalties to quit his teaching job at Lawrenceville and write full-time.
		Wilder suspended his literary career during the remainder of World War II so he could enlist as a captain in the U.S. Army Air Force Intelligence, taking an active role in planning the air attacks on the cities of Taranto and Salerno.
	www.harperacademic.com /catalog/instructors_guide_xml.asp?isbn=0060929847 (1519 words)

	thornton wilder and the puritan narrative tradition by lincoln konkle
		Wilder was one of America's most important dramatists (one masterpiece for certain) and a fine novelist, and his present neglect is inexcusable.
		Thornton Wilder and the Puritan Narrative Tradition is the first reading of Wilder’s life, fiction, drama, and criticism as a product of American culture.
		Konkle shows that Thornton Wilder, as a literary descendant of Edward Taylor, inherited the best of the Puritans’ worldview and drew upon those attributes of the Puritan tradition within American literature that would strike a fundamental chord with his American audience.
	www.umsystem.edu /upress/fall2005/konkle.htm (518 words)

	BookRags: Thornton Niven Wilder Biography
		Born April 17, 1897, in Madison, Wisconsin, Thornton Niven Wilder lived in China as a teenager where his father was a United States Consul-General in Hong Kong.
		Wilder was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963 and the National Book Committee's National Medal for Literature (first time presented) in 1965.
		Wilder died of a heart attack December 7, 1975, in Hamden, Connecticut.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/thornton-niven-wilder (866 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder, Volume T: Books: Thornton Wilder,A. Tappan Wilder,Donald Gallup (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The theater world's great rediscovery of Thornton Wilder shifts into high gear with this glorious volume of short plays--some recently discovered among his papers and published here for the first time.
		Like so many of Wilder's longer works, these short plays seem to be homely slices of Americana--but every once in a while they suddenly yield glimpses of the infinite.
		Included are two essays on Wilder, a new one by John Guare and a reprint by John Gassner.
	www.amazon.ca /Collected-Short-Plays-Thornton-Wilder/dp/1559361492 (517 words)

	Dramatic Association and Thornton Wilder's Our Town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Wilder's response is interesting on many levels in addition to its association with Wheaton College.
		It indicates how often Wilder received requests to play the Stage Manager, and reveals that he was working on a novel to be published in 1948, The Ides of March, which tells through letters and documents the story of the last days of Julius Caesar.
		Wilder's "Note" provided useful stage directions which would appear in later editions of the play.
	www2.wheatoncollege.edu /Wallace/Newsletter/Spring99/wilder.html (632 words)

	The Matchmaker Summary & Essays - Thornton Wilder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It uses such time-honored conventions as characters hidden under tables and in closets, men disguised as women, a complex conspiracy to bring young lovers together, and a happy ending in which three couples are united with plans to marry.
		Wilder referred to his play as a ‘‘free adaptation’’ of Nestroy’s, which itself was adapted from British playwright John Oxenham’s 1835 comedy A Day Well Spent.
		In Wilder’s version, an irascible, penny-pinching store owner, Horace Vandergelder, refuses to let his niece marry the poor artist she loves, although he himself plans to remarry.
	www.enotes.com /matchmaker/16496 (370 words)

	TomFolio.com: by Thornton Wilder
		Wilder, Thornton Niven, 1897-1975 The Woman of Andros Publisher: MCMXXX [1930]-- Albert & Charles Boni-- New York.
		Wilder, Thornton Niven, 1897-1975 The Bridge of San Luis Rey.
		Wilder, Thornton THE IDES OF MARCH Publisher: Harper And Bros. NY 1948.
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	ODYSSEE Theater: Thornton Wilder - Leben und Werk
		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 winner for both fiction and drama.
		Thornton Niven Wilder was born in Madison, Wisconsin on April 17, 1897.
		Thornton Wilder had firsthand experience of China in the early 1910s when his father was appointed American consul in Shanghai and he was sent to a school run by British missionaries in Chefoo...
	www.odysseetheater.com /wilder/wilder.htm (458 words)

	Thornton Wilder - Penguin Group (New Zealand) Authors - Penguin Group (New Zealand)
		Thornton Niven Wilder was born in Wisconsin, USA, in 1897, and spent about two and a half years of his early life in Shanghai where his father was Consul-General.
		During the war Thornton Wilder worked in the Intelligence Branch of the US Army Air Force and served in North Africa and Italy.
		The year 1927 saw publication of The Bridge of San Luis Rey, which established Thornton Wilder as one of the leading novelists of the twentieth-century.
	www.penguin.co.nz /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000034937,00.html (229 words)

	Thornton Wilder
		Thornton Wilder was equally prolific and successful as a dramatist and novelist.
		The theater world's great rediscovery of Thornton Wilder shifts into high gear with this glorious volume of short plays - some recently discovered among his papers and published here for the first time.
		Like so many of Wilder's longer works, these short plays seem to be homely slices of Americana - but every once in a while they suddenly yield glimpses of the infinite.
	www.actorsbone.com /Library/Authors/WilderThornton.htm (485 words)

	The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder - HarperAcademic
		Wilder writes that Esteban “discovers that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other.” Do you agree that there can never be two people that love one another equally?
		Several critics have pointed out that the characters in Wilder’s plays are types-;the mother, the young girl, the embodiment of evil-;rather than realistic human figures.
		Wilder once declared, “I am not an innovator but a rediscoverer of forgotten goods.” Discuss The Bridge of San Luis Rey in the light of this remark.
	www.harperacademic.com /catalog/instructors_guide_xml.asp?isbn=0060088877 (465 words)

	The Ides of March: A Novel by Thornton Wilder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Drawing on such unique sources as Thornton Wilder's unpublished letters, journals, and selections from the extensive annotations Wilder made years later in the margins of the book, Tappan Wilder's Afterword adds a special dimension to the reissue of this internationally acclaimed novel.
		Thornton Wilder called it "a fantasia on certain events and persons of the last days of the Roman republic." Through vividly imagined letters and documents, Wilder brings to life a dramatic period of world history and one of history's most magnetic, elusive personalities.
		Thronton Wilder was equally prolific and successful as a dramatist and novelist.
	www.harpercollins.com /book/index.aspx?isbn=9780060088903 (585 words)

	Thornton Wilder Papers
		The Thornton N. Wilder Papers are part of the holdings of the Department of Archives and Special Collections in the Charles Von der Ahe Library at Loyola Marymount University.
		Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) was a noted American playwright and novelist.
		The correspondence does not tell us how Wilder and Gibbs became friends, but it was obviously a long and warm relationship that was already well established by the time the correspondence began.
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	Yourlit.com -- Thornton Wilder
		Born Thornton Niven Wilder in Madison, Wisconsin, he was the son of a U.S. diplomat, spending part of his childhood in China.
		Wilder was good friends with a large number of writers including Ernest Hemingway, Willa Cather, Montgomery Clift and Gertrude Stein.
		Although he never discussed his homosexuality publicly or in his writings, his close friend Samuel M. Steward is considered to have been his lover.
	www.yourlit.com /wilder.html (624 words)

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