thornton wilder

     

Folks in "Our Town" know his novel "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" made him famous

Trivia about thornton wilder

  • The Antrobuses of Excelsior, New Jersey are an "ice age" family in his "The Skin of Our Teeth"
  • "Our Teeth" & "Our Town" have been subjects for this Wisconsin-born playwright
  • He's the only man to win Pulitzer Prizes for fiction ("The Bridge of San Luis Rey") & drama ("Our Town")
  • December 7, 1975:In "our town" of Hamden, Conn.
  • "The Bridge of San Luis Rey"
  • The original production of his play "The Skin Of Our Teeth" starred Tallulah Bankhead & Frederic March
  • Matthew Burnett turned this "Our Town" playwright's novel "Theophilus North" into a play that premiered in 2003
  • He won 2 Pulitzer prizes for drama & 1 for a novel, "The Bridge of San Luis Rey"
  • In the '30s this "Our Town" dramatist was a lecturer on literature at the University of Chicago
  • "Hello, Dolly!" was based on his play, "The Matchmaker"
  • This Yale grad's play "The Skin of Our Teeth" premiered in New Haven in 1942 (& later won him his 3rd Pulitzer Prize)