Thornton Wilder 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. His Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of seven novels, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928, as did two of his four full-length dramas, Our Town (1938) and The Skin of Our Teeth (1943). Wilder's Matchmaker was adapted as the musical Hello, Dolly! He also enjoyed enormous success with many other forms of the written and spoken word, among them teaching, acting, opera, and film. His screenplay for Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943) remains a classic psychological thriller to this day. 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.
Novels
The Cabala (1926)
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927)
The Woman of Andros (1930)
Heaven's My Destination (1935)
The Ides of March (1948)
The Eighth Day (1967)
Theophilus North (1973)
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927)
The Woman of Andros (1930)
Heaven's My Destination (1935)
The Ides of March (1948)
The Eighth Day (1967)
Theophilus North (1973)
Omnibus
Ides of March / Bridge of San Luis Rey (1974)
Cabala / Bridge of San Luis Rey / Woman of Andros (1980)
Cabala / Woman of Andros (2007)
Cabala / Bridge of San Luis Rey / Woman of Andros (1980)
Cabala / Woman of Andros (2007)
Collections
The Angel That Troubled the Waters (1928)
The Long Christmas Dinner (1932)
3 Plays (1957)
The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder (1997)
Thornton Wilder Reader (1997)
The Long Christmas Dinner (1932)
3 Plays (1957)
The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder (1997)
Thornton Wilder Reader (1997)
Plays
The Happy Journey (1931)
Jed Harris Presents Our Town (1938)
Our Town (1938)
Merchant of Yonkers (1939)
The Skin of Our Teeth (1942)
Our Century (1947)
The Drunken Sisters (1957)
The Matchmaker (1958)
Childhood (1960)
Infancy (1961)
The Alcestiad (1977)
Jed Harris Presents Our Town (1938)
Our Town (1938)
Merchant of Yonkers (1939)
The Skin of Our Teeth (1942)
Our Century (1947)
The Drunken Sisters (1957)
The Matchmaker (1958)
Childhood (1960)
Infancy (1961)
The Alcestiad (1977)
Non fiction
James Joyce, 1882-1941 (1944)
Joyce and the Modern Novel (1957)
American Characteristics and Other Essays (1979)
Journals of Thornton Wilder, 1939-1961 (1985)
The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Thornton Wilder (1997)
The Collected Translations and Adaptations of Thornton Wilder (2000)
A Tour of the Darkling Plain (2001) (with Joshua Gaylord)
Joyce and the Modern Novel (1957)
American Characteristics and Other Essays (1979)
Journals of Thornton Wilder, 1939-1961 (1985)
The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Thornton Wilder (1997)
The Collected Translations and Adaptations of Thornton Wilder (2000)
A Tour of the Darkling Plain (2001) (with Joshua Gaylord)
Awards
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