Thornton Wilder Biography

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NAME: Thornton Niven Wilder
OCCUPATION: Author, Playwright
BIRTH DATE: April 17, 1897
DEATH DATE: December 07, 1975
EDUCATION: Yale University

PLACE OF BIRTH: Madison, Wisconsin
PLACE OF DEATH: Hamden, Connecticut

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U.S. writer Thornton Wilder won three Pulitzer Prizes, for his novel The Bridges of San Luis Rey and for his plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth.

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Writer Thornton Wilder was teased as a teen for being overly intellectual. After earning degrees from Oberlin, Yale and Princeton, he wrote The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927, Pulitzer Prize). His play Our Town (1938, Pulitzer Prize) has become one of America's most enduringly popular plays. In 1942, he released The Skin of Our Teeth (1942, Pulitzer Prize). Theophilus North was his last novel.

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