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Thornton Wilder


Born
in Madison, Wisconsin, The United States
April 17, 1897

Died
December 07, 1975

Genre
Literature & Fiction, Plays


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

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Average rating: 3.78 · 118,117 ratings · 8,460 reviews · 216 distinct works • Similar authors
Our Town
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3.75 avg rating — 60,950 ratings — published 1938 — 5 editions
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
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3.79 avg rating — 40,028 ratings — published 1927 — 533 editions
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The Skin of Our Teeth
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3.83 avg rating — 5,379 ratings — published 1942 — 42 editions
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Three Plays: Our Town, The ...
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4.03 avg rating — 2,547 ratings — published 1957 — 96 editions
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The Ides of March
3.98 avg rating — 2,384 ratings — published 1948 — 153 editions
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The Eighth Day
3.98 avg rating — 1,898 ratings — published 1967 — 95 editions
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Theophilus North
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4.04 avg rating — 1,280 ratings — published 1973 — 30 editions
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The Matchmaker
3.69 avg rating — 870 ratings — published 1954 — 17 editions
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Heaven's My Destination
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3.69 avg rating — 450 ratings — published 1935
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The Cabala
3.40 avg rating — 291 ratings — published 1926 — 88 editions
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Quotes by Thornton Wilder  (?)
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“Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.”
― Thornton Wilder, Our Town
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“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.”
― Thornton Wilder
tags: life, living
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“The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.”
― Thornton Wilder
tags: epitaph, gratitude
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Polls

Janaury 2021 New School Group Read Poll

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, 1985, 324 pages
 
  79 votes, 29.7%

Maurice by E.M. Forster, 1971, 256 pages
 
  67 votes, 25.2%

 
  31 votes, 11.7%

 
  28 votes, 10.5%

The Passion by Jeanette Winterson, 1987, 176 pages
 
  27 votes, 10.2%

Embers by Sándor Márai, 2942, 214 pages
 
  19 votes, 7.1%

 
  15 votes, 5.6%

266 total votes
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