Thornton Wilder (1897–1975)
Forfatter af Our Town
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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 vis mere (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) vis mindre
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Værker af Thornton Wilder
Thornton Wilder: Collected Plays and Writings on Theater (Library of America) (2007) 190 eksemplarer
Thornton Wilder: The Eighth Day / Theophilus North / Autobiographical Writings (2012) 104 eksemplarer
The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Thornton Wilder (Henry McBride Series in Modernism and Mo) (1996) 41 eksemplarer
The Cabala | The Bridge of San Luis Rey | Heaven's My Destination (1959) — Forfatter — 4 eksemplarer
Il cielo è il mio destino 4 eksemplarer
The Bridge of San Luis Rey | The Ides of March 3 eksemplarer
The Bridge of San Luis Rey | The Eighth Day 2 eksemplarer
Obras escogidas 2 eksemplarer
Plays 2 eksemplarer
Love, and How to Cure It 2 eksemplarer
Commedie in un atto e drammi in tre minuti 2 eksemplarer
Idi di marzo 1 eksemplar
Atti in tre minuti per tre personaggi 1 eksemplar
Piccola città: commedia in tre atti 1 eksemplar
La donna di Andro: romanzo 1 eksemplar
Insurgent 1 eksemplar
A ponte de São Luis Rei 1 eksemplar
TRENTON İLE CAMDEN'E MUTLU YOLCULUK 1 eksemplar
The bridge of San Luis Rey 1 eksemplar
Le pont du roi saint Louis 1 eksemplar
L'Ottavo giorno 1 eksemplar
THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH / THE GLASS MENAGERIE 1 eksemplar
Our Town (HHH Production) — Forfatter — 1 eksemplar
Our Town by Thornton Wilder Published by Scholastic Paperbacks 1st (first) edition (1989) Paperback 1 eksemplar
The ides of march 1 eksemplar
The Stories of Thornton Wilder 1 eksemplar
Drammi brevi 1 eksemplar
Piccola città 1 eksemplar
Atti in tre minuti 1 eksemplar
Wreck on the Five-Twenty-Five, The 1 eksemplar
The Flight into Egypt 1 eksemplar
The Message and Jehanne 1 eksemplar
Autumn Thunder 1 eksemplar
Thornton Wilder Stories — Forfatter — 1 eksemplar
Stories and Essays 1 eksemplar
Three Stories by 1 eksemplar
Such Things Only Happen in Books 1 eksemplar
Nascuntur Poetæ 1 eksemplar
Proserpina and the Devil 1 eksemplar
Fanny Otcott 1 eksemplar
Brother Fire 1 eksemplar
The Penny That Beauty Spent 1 eksemplar
Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came 1 eksemplar
Thornton WIlder's Our Town (featuring translated passages by Nilo Cruz and Jeff Augustin) (2020) 1 eksemplar
Our Century: A Play in Three Scenes 1 eksemplar
The Merchant of Yonkers: A Farce in Four Acts 1 eksemplar
Shadow of a Doubt 1 eksemplar
Centaurs 1 eksemplar
Thirteen Plays 1 eksemplar
Hast Thou Considered My Servant Job? 1 eksemplar
Mozart and the Gray Steward 1 eksemplar
Now The Servant's Name Was Malchus 1 eksemplar
And the Sea Shall Give Up Its Dead 1 eksemplar
Leviathan 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Bidragyder — 131 eksemplarer
Playwrights on Playwriting: The Meaning and Making of Modern Drama from Ibsen to Ionesco (1960) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver — 109 eksemplarer
Gentlemen, Scholars and Scoundrels: A Treasury of the Best of Harper's Magazine from 1850 to the Present (1959) — Bidragyder — 55 eksemplarer
Twenty One-Act Plays: An Anthology for Amateur Performing Groups (1978) — Bidragyder — 36 eksemplarer
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 3: Intelligent Family Living (1967) — Bidragyder — 33 eksemplarer
Half-a-Hundred Stories for Men, Great Tales by American Writers (1945) — Bidragyder — 15 eksemplarer
Amerikanische Kurzgeschichten (American Short Stories) (English and German Edition) (1956) — Bidragyder — 9 eksemplarer
Best-in-Books: Treasure of Pleasant Valley / Best of H.T. Webster / Bridge of San Luis Rey / Think Fast Mr. Moto /… (1956) — Bidragyder — 4 eksemplarer
The long Christmas dinner : (Das lange Weihnachtsmahl) : opera in one act ; Libretto by Thornton Wilder (1961) — Forfatter — 2 eksemplarer
Teatro Norteamericano contemporaneo — Bidragyder — 2 eksemplarer
The Bridge of San Luis Rey [1944 film] — Original novel — 1 eksemplar
Teatru American Contemporan vol. 1 — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
A Teacher's Guide to Our Town: Common-Core Aligned Teacher Materials and a Sample Chapter (2015) — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
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- Kanonisk navn
- Wilder, Thornton
- Juridisk navn
- Wilder, Thornton Niven
- Fødselsdato
- 1897-04-17
- Dødsdag
- 1975-12-07
- Begravelsessted
- Mount Carmel Cemetery, Hamden, Connecticut, USA
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Madison, Wisconsin, USA
- Dødssted
- Hamden, Connecticut, USA
- Bopæl
- Chefoo, China
Ojai, California, USA
Berkeley, California, USA
Douglas, Arizona, USA
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Hamden, Connecticut, USA - Uddannelse
- Princeton University (MA|French|1926)
Yale University (BA|1920)
Oberlin College
American Academy in Rome
Berkeley High School
Creekside Middle School (vis alle 8)
China Inland Mission Chefoo School
The Thacher School - Erhverv
- playwright
novelist
professor
translator
librettist
teacher (vis alle 12)
screenwriter
short-story writer
essayist
corporal (U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps, WWI)
lieutenant colonel (U.S. Army Air Force Intelligence, WWII)
actor - Relationer
- Wilder, Amos Niven (brother)
Wilder, Isabel (sister)
Dakin, Janet Wilder (sister)
Wilder, A. Tappan (nephew)
Wilder, Charlotte (sister) - Organisationer
- 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) (vis alle 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) - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- 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) (vis alle 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 - Kort biografi
- 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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