Thornton Wilder  

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Thornton Wilder (April 17, 1897 – December 7, 1975) was an American playwright and novelist, noted for The Bridge of San Luis Rey.

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Plays

• The Trumpet Shall Sound (1926)
• An Angel That Troubled the Waters and Other Plays (1928)
• The Long Christmas Dinner and Other Plays in One Act (1931):
  • The Long Christmas Dinner
  • Queens of France
  • Pullman Car Hiawatha
  • Love and How to Cure It
  • Such Things Only Happen in Books
  • The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden
• Our Town (1938) — won a Pulitzer Prize
• The Merchant of Yonkers (1938)
• The Skin of Our Teeth (1942) — won a Pulitzer Prize
• The Matchmaker (1954) — revised from The Merchant of Yonkers
• The Alcestiad: Or, A Life In The Sun (1955)
• Childhood (1960)
• Infancy (1960)
• Plays for Bleecker Street (1962)
• The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder Volume I (1997):
  • The Long Christmas Dinner
  • Queens of France
  • Pullman Car Hiawatha
  • Love and How to Cure It
  • Such Things Only Happen in Books
  • The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden
  • The Drunken Sisters
  • Bernice
  • The Wreck on the Five-Twenty-Five
  • A Ringing of Doorbells
  • In Shakespeare and the Bible
  • Someone from Assisi
  • Cement Hands
  • Infancy
  • Childhood
  • Youth
  • The Rivers Under the Earth

Novels

• The Cabala (1926)
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927) — won a Pulitzer Prize
• The Woman of Andros (1930) — based on Andria, a comedy by Terence
• Heaven's My Destination (1935)
• Ides of March (1948)
• The Eighth Day (1967) — won a National Book Award
• Theophilus North (1973)