Thornton Wilder

Writer 14 / Author 12 · 1926 – 2026 · 🎬 14 📖 12 · 🇺🇸 United States

Thornton Niven Wilder was an American playwright and novelist. He won three Pulitzer Prizes, for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and for the plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, and a U.S. National Book Award for the novel The Eighth Day.

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All · 26 🎬 Movies · 14 📖 Books · 12

Drama Fiction History American fiction (fictional works by one author) literature

Highlights

Our Town

2026

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

2004

Our Town

2003

Frequent Collaborators

Abraham Lincoln

3 shared

Edwin Arlington Robinson

3 shared

Archibald MacLeish

3 shared

Chief Joseph

3 shared

Katherine Anne Porter

3 shared

Robert Frost

3 shared

All decades 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s

🎬 Movies

Our Town

writer

2026

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

writer

2004

Our Town

writer

2003

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Our Town

writer

1999

🎬

Shadow of a Doubt

writer

1991

Mr. North

writer

1988

Our Town

writer

1977

Hello, Dolly!

writer

1969

The Skin of Our Teeth

writer

1959

The Matchmaker

writer

1958

Our Town

writer

1955

Shadow of a Doubt

writer

1943

Our Town

writer

1940

We Live Again

writer

1934

📖 Books

Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience

author

1999

Prentice Hall Literature--The American Experience

author

1989

Theophilus North

author

1973

The Eighth Day

author

1967

Three Plays

author

1955

The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition

author

1952

Contemporary Drama. Eleven Plays. American - English - European

author

1950

The Ides of March

author

1948

Heaven's my destination

author

1934

The Woman of Andros

author

1930

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

author

1927

The cabala

author

1926

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