Factbites
 Where results make sense
About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us  

Topic: Thorton Wilder


Related Topics

In the News (Tue 22 Dec 09)

  
  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.
memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/apr17.html   (472 words)

  
 Thornton Wilder   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Thornton Wilder (April 17 1897 – December 7 1975) was an American writer.
Born Thornton Niven Wilder in Madison Wisconsin he was the son of a diplomat spending part of his childhood in China.
Wilder was interred in the Mount Carmel in Hamden Connecticut.
www.freeglossary.com /Thorton_Wilder   (719 words)

  
 Our Town USA
This Our Town USA site is dedicated to author Thorton Wilder.
Wilder was the author of "Our Town," a play that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1938 as the best play of the year.
While you are here our sponsors will be glad you came by to have a look at their pages.
www.festivalusa.com /ourtown-usa   (221 words)

  
 Thornton Wilder   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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.
www.nhptv.org /kn/itv/mcd/wilder.htm   (245 words)

  
 Daily Celebrations ~ Thornton Wilder, Razor's Edge ~ April 17 ~ Ideas to motivate, educate, and inspire
A Pulitzer Prize winner as both a playwright and novelist, Wilder studied archaeology, served in both World Wars, and taught literature as well as gaining fame as a writer.
Wilder described the classic drama as, "The most beautiful little play you can imagine...It's a little play with all the big subjects in it; and its a big play with all the little things lovingly impressed into it."
As topical as ever, Thorton examined life and death, family, good and evil, and tragedy and salvation.
www.dailycelebrations.com /04170a.htm   (359 words)

  
 Our Town
A time of innocence in America, It is captured brilliantly in Thorton Wilder's play and then adapted to the screen by Wilder, with help from Frank Craven and Harry Chandlee.
Wilder's narration, played through a town character, is at times nostalgic yet satirical.
Wilder's powerful play won a Pulitzer Prize for drama and this is human drama at its finest.
www.dvdcorner.net /html/ourtown.html   (573 words)

  
 ERA Wilder : Residential & Commercial Real Estate For North Carolina and South Carolina : Mooresville - Lake Norman
ERA Wilder Realty - Mooresville / Lake Norman
At ERA Wilder Realty, selling real estate is more than an occupation...
I can assure you that our highly trained agents with their unparalleled commitment to service and unmatched expertise in their market area will surpass all your expectations.
www.erawilderrealty.com /mooresville.php   (84 words)

  
 The Skin of Our Teeth (Broadway Theatre Archive) - $13.59   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Thorton Wilder certainly had a genius for heightening the effect his plays had by attacking the formality of structure.
First produced in 1942, the play reflects Wilder's fear that the war then engulfing the world might truly be a war for the future of civilization.
Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning play brings to life the fate and foibles of the celebrated Antrobus family--a bold and brassy embodiment of Wilder's vision of the American people.
fullcatalog.info /554052/goodsB00006G8HN.html   (800 words)

  
 Edmunds Enterprises of America, Inc.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Thorton Wilder is one of the best playrights of his generation.
Thorton Wilder does an amazing job with character developments and sub-plots, and these three plays really show his genius.
In addition, Wilder uses the play to make a statement about the futility of living in the past, and forcing the audience to deal with the concept that just like a show, life must go on.
www.edmunds-enterprises.com /linux/product_detail.php/ASIN/0060929855   (1050 words)

  
 Movie Database - [TV Guide Online]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Wilder must be given credit for establishing such an important form.
Remaining faithful to Wilder's script, director Wood skillfully conveys the laughter, love, and pain in the lives of Wilder's heartwarming characters.
And the techniques Wood employs to tell their stories are marvelous to behold: a dazzling series of dissolves, evocative lighting, and montages that effectively capture the flavor of the periods depicted.
online.tvguide.com /movies/database/showmovie.asp?MI=9742   (293 words)

  
 Brief Review: 'The Ides of March' by Thornton Wilder -- Objectivist Center -- Reason, Individualism, Achievement, and ...
Wilder does not so much tell this story as meditate on it.
Wilder's portrait of that mind arrested the attention of the philosopher Brand Blanshard, one of our era's rare academic champions of reason.
At one point, Wilder labels his genre a "fantasia" and at another "a suppositional reconstruction." The reason is that, although Wilder narrates the entire story through documents-letters, journal entries, reports, graffiti-they are fictional, Wilder's brilliantly imaginative reconstruction.
www.objectivistcenter.org /text/wdonway_review-ides-of-march.asp   (753 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Three Plays: Our Town, the Skin of Our Teeth, the Matchmaker: Books: Thornton Niven Wilder   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Thronton Wilder was equally prolific and successful as a dramatist and novelist.
Thornton Wilder (1897–1975) is an accomplished novelist and playwright whose works, exploring the connection between the commonplace and cosmic dimensions of human experience, continue to be read and produced around the world.
Wilder's many honors include the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the National Book Committee's Medal for Literature.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060912936?v=glance   (1955 words)

  
 Gurdjieff Legacy, Articles
Wilder tells him he thinks he is a subjective idiot.
Wilder is not offended and Gurdjieff asks him to come to dinner at the Prieuré.
Wilder, a keen, if conventional, observer, says of the rage that "It was terrific and it passed as suddenly as it came.
www.gurdjieff-legacy.org /40articles/wilder.htm   (478 words)

  
 Wilder, Amos Niven. Papers, 1923-1982.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Amos Niven Wilder (1895-1993), was a pastor, poet, teacher, and theologian.
Born in Calais, Maine, Wilder was educated at various institutions including Oberlin College (1913-1915), Mansfield College (1921-1923), and Yale Divinity School, where he received his Ph.D. in 1933.
Wilder published several books on religion, poetry, and the arts.
www.hds.harvard.edu /library/bms/bms00641.html   (508 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: Our Town   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Wilder's makes it clear he is trying to convey the simple sanctity of everyday life, a theme that is certainly found in Wilder's novel "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" (1927), which looked at the lives of five persons who died in the collapse of a bridge in Peru in the 18th century.
Thorton Wilder's Our Town is an excellent play for adult and young adult reading.
Wilder was an intellectual, an admirer of the avant-garde and the experimental works of James Joyce.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0060929847   (1328 words)

  
 Our Town Summary
Wilder was dissatisfied with the unimaginative, stilted theatrical productions of his time: "[They] aimed to be soothing.
The tragic had no heat; the comic had no bite; the social criticism failed to indict us with responsibility." Our Town, with its far-reaching theme and unmistakable symbolism, was a far cry from the typical bland depression era play (though, ironically, "the magic of the mundane" is the play's major theme).
He knows the characters' feelings, and alternately takes on the roles of narrator, philosophical druggist, host, master of ceremonies, commentator and friend to the audience.
www.awerty.com /our2.html   (1523 words)

  
 DVD Booty - Our Town   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
We get voice-over as the camera scans the graveyard and only after the camera pans the sky of sparkling stars do we see the dead sitting on chairs and talking---clearly the audience is supposed to think these people are in heaven.
I really think Thorton Wilder clearly states that the people in the cemetery are in the process of forgetting their old lives and preparing for what comes after, so I don't think Wilder wanted us to think they were in heaven yet.
Wilder took umbrage that the film version rewrote his powerful final scene.
www.dvdbooty.com /dvds/our-town   (622 words)

  
 Online movie subscription service - Foreign film reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Where Thorton Wilder wrote about about little Grover’s Corners, this documentary exemplifies how Our Town is every town… Our Town is Compton.
Kennedy's discreet inquiry into their offstage lives and into the ethos of their town follows the structure of the play, in which the three acts are devoted to daily life, love and marriage, and death.
Thornton Wilder, wherever he is, would understand and take it as a compliment.
www.filmmovement.com /Forms/FilmDetails.aspx?ProductID=0803&canadian=&Trailor=ot.mov&listing=past   (1631 words)

  
 capegazette.com - Cape Region's Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Thorton Wilder’s masterpiece “Our Town”; is a play without scenery, without props,without traditional theatrical conventions.
One unusual theatrical technique that Wilder uses is a narrator, who sometimes is a character in the play’s action and sometimes is a spokesperson for the playwright himself.
Wilder used the Stage Manager to give the layout of the town and explain other aspects that scenery would usually show.
www.capegazette.com /storiesmorgue/arts/2003arts/ourtownee110102.html   (415 words)

  
 National Players bring "Our Town" to McDaniel stage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Westminster, Md. – The National Players will welcome audiences to "Our Town," Thorton Wilder’s lyrical drama, at 8 p.m., Sept. 13 in Western Maryland College Alumni Hall.
Written while society was inundated with the negative aspects of life and war in Europe, "Our Town" became an escape to the unchanging moral values of small-town living.
Wilder’s first major play, "Our Town" won the Pulitzer Prize for literature.
www.mcdaniel.edu /news/archive03/ourtown.shtml   (167 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Our Town: A Play in Three Acts (Perennial Classics): Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Wilder has transformed the simple events of human life into universal reverie.
It tells the tale of two families, the Gibbs and the webbs,in love life and death{Wilder never skirted the issue of death in his writings>}Its timlessness lies in the essence of wilders writings: how the simple,the mundane taken together make us who we are, and how important the quotidian chores of daily existence are.
Three Plays by Thornton Wilder @1965 PB (Current bid: $5.95)
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060929847?v=glance   (1422 words)

  
 Monarch Notes: Works of Thornton Wilder: Critical Opinion and Bibliography@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Monarch Notes: Works of Thornton Wilder: Critical Opinion and Bibliography@ HighBeam Research
Works of Thornton Wilder: Critical Opinion and Bibliography
Most critics agree that Wilder's two most significant works are Our
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:28048597&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf   (185 words)

  
 Nashville City Paper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
With that for a background one is left to wonder what brought about the choice to produce the Thorton Wilder's classic play Our Town, which has been around for over sixty years.
Its being a classic doesn't remove the fact that when Thorton Wilder wrote this, it was about as cutting edge as you get.
It was also Wilder's writing that brought Feehely to the decision to put The Actors Bridge stamp on the piece.
www.nashvillecitypaper.com /index.cfm?section=12&screen=news&news_id=34279   (661 words)

  
 The Matchmaker Thorton Wilder - Serious About Dating? Meet Compatible The Matchmaker Thorton Wilder in your area.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The The person at www.match.com the other end may not be chating who or what he or she says.
The people you Orange County Singles will meet are The Matchmaker Thorton Wilder single and The live in your area.
Thorton Do not disclose the name of The Matchmaker Thorton Wilder your hotel Match Making and never allow your date great expectation dating service to make the arrangements for you.
www.online-singles-dating.net /the-matchmaker-thorton-wilder.php   (618 words)

  
 [No title]
Thorton Wilder was born in 1897 at Madison, Wisconsin.
His most popular novel is THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY (1927) which won the Pulitzer Prize and established Wilder as one of the leading novelists of the twentieth century.
It examines the lives of five people who died in the collapse of a bridge in Perú in the 18th.
www.uam.es /personal_pdi/stmaria/ialonso/Wilder.doc   (1112 words)

  
 canadian wilderness facts, okefenokee national wildlife refuge. san diego wildlife park our town by thorton wilder
canadian wilderness facts, mattamuskeet national wildlife refuge, sandra wilder
Bio ptc laughing gila jane busch, beer pink wild class menu study, council wildturkey bon materials medicinal, mud cactus cucumber- Wildarms 2.
our town by thorton wilder, canadian wilderness facts, wild 2 comet
www.tangojoven.net /wild_2.html   (1827 words)

  
 eBay - thorton wilder, Fiction Books, Nonfiction Books items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Enthusiast: A Life of Thorton Wilder by Gilbert A. Heroic Image Multim
THORTON WILDER The Woman of Andros HC 1930 
The Enthusiast: A Life of Thorton Wilder by Gilbert A. were4444
search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=thorton+wilder&newu=1&...   (359 words)

  
 Beloved Play "Our Town" Is Performed At Dore Theater   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Performances are set for Feb. 24, 25 and 26 at 8 p.m.
The play earned playwright Thorton Wilder the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1938 and continues to be performed by actors in high school, college, and community theater groups around the country and the world.
Wilder wrote many plays, novels and short stories, including "The Matchmaker," which was turned into the musical "Hello Dolly!"
www.csubak.edu /CSUBNews/046-our.html   (397 words)

  
 Playbill Features: PLAYBILL ARCHIVES: Our Town — 1938
Adaptations of novels also flood the stage this season as Broadway productions of Madame Bovary and Of Mice and Men are based on the respective Gustave Flaubert and John Steinbeck novels.
Earlier in the season, producer Jed Harris presented Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House as adapted by Thornton Wilder at the Morosco Theatre.
Later in the original Broadway run, playwright Wilder will get to play his Stage Manager, a role taken on in subsequent Broadway revivals by such actors as Henry Fonda, Spalding Gray and Paul Newman — in the current production.
www.playbill.com /features/article/85767.html   (782 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Our Town: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Wilder's play represents an exploration into the American self.
Wilder is a master when he shows the transcendendal dimentions of common life.
Moreover, "Our Town" makes the reader understand the whole meaning of the American dream, how the States owe their greatness to the effort and sorrows of common individuals like Wilder's characters.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0060929847   (506 words)

  
 Our Town by Thornton Wilder
Thornton Wilder's Our Town on November 19, 20, and 21 at 7:00 p.m.
Wilder's play, a three act Pulitzer Prize winning drama.
Wilder believed that people didn't appreciate life well enough
www.drurydrama.com /OurTown.html   (881 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Factbites
  About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us  
Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.