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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 · 113,891 ratings · 7,862 reviews · 225 distinct works • Similar authors
Our Town
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3.74 avg rating — 59,027 ratings — published 1938 — 165 editions
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
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3.79 avg rating — 38,489 ratings — published 1927 — 527 editions
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The Skin of Our Teeth
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3.83 avg rating — 5,204 ratings — published 1942 — 42 editions
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Three Plays: Our Town, The ...
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4.04 avg rating — 2,423 ratings — published 1957 — 103 editions
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The Ides of March
3.97 avg rating — 2,218 ratings — published 1948 — 3 editions
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The Eighth Day
3.98 avg rating — 1,839 ratings — published 1967 — 45 editions
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Theophilus North
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4.04 avg rating — 1,235 ratings — published 1973 — 68 editions
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The Matchmaker
3.69 avg rating — 838 ratings — published 1954 — 3 editions
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Heaven's My Destination
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The Cabala
3.36 avg rating — 263 ratings — published 1926 — 75 editions
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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

March 2024 New School Classics Group Read

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, 1996 370 pages
 
  67 votes, 27.2%

 
  55 votes, 22.4%

 
  37 votes, 15.0%

 
  34 votes, 13.8%

The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth, 1932, 363 pages
 
  20 votes, 8.1%

The Wreath by Sigrid Undset, 1920, 305 pages
 
  19 votes, 7.7%

Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake, 1946, 396 pages
 
  14 votes, 5.7%

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