Who is Thornton Wilder?
Thornton Wilder was an American playwright and novelist. He was born in 1897, in Madison, Wisconsin, and died in 1975 at the age of 78. Over the course of his life he published seven novels, and more than ten plays, including a number of one act plays. Thornton Wilder won three Pulitzer Prizes over the course of his life, one for his novel The Bridge of San Luis Ray, and two for his plays, Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth. Thornton Wilder came from an intellectual family. His father was a diplomat for the United States, and the family spent some time in China during his early years. His older brother, Amos Wilder, was a poet of some renown, and his sister Charlotte Wilder was also a widely published poet. Thornton Wilder attended Berkeley High School, and went on to receive a BA from Yale and a MA from Princeton. After Princeton, Thornton Wilder began to publish his writing. He published his first novel, The Cabala in 1926. The next year his second novel, The Bridge of San Luis Rey e
